Here, a wick check will be performed for Cartoon Whale.
Why?: Cartoon Whale is suspected
of attracting zero-context and non-noteworthy examples. This check will determine if that's true.
Wicks checked: 39/39 (excluding sandboxes)
Wick totals:
- 1/39 wicks, or 2.56%, were written in a noteworthy way with proper context,
- 27/39 wicks, or 69.23%, were just descriptions of how cartoon whales were drawn, with little to no differences from other cartoon whales,
- 2/39 wicks, or 5.13%, were zero-context,
- 3/39 wicks, or 7.69%, were unclear or other misuse, and
- 6/39 wicks, or 15.38%, were unclassifiable.
Totaled together, that's
- 1/39 wicks, or 2.56%, correctly used, with context, and noteworthy, and
- 32/39 wicks, or 82.05%, non-noteworthy, zero-context, or misused.
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Noteworthy examples with context (1/39)
- WesternAnimation.Samson And Sally: While an otherwise-savvy movie about the lives of sperm whales, the art style simplifies them into having rounded, teardrop-shaped bodies with no dorsal fins, and they can appear as a bluish-black color, albino white, and some sort of black-and-white variant. While piebald whales can technically exist, it's rarely to neatly-organized, easily-repeatable patterns like the white mask-like facial markings over Sally's and Samson's pod leader's face. Describes how the appearance of the whales as cartoony affects the realism in a meaningful way.
Just a cartoon whale, not especially different from other cartoon whales (27/39)
- Characters.Disney Pinocchio: Fits this trope to a T. His appearance combines features of both sperm whales and blue whales, such as a square head with two rows of teeth, a dorsal fin and throat grooves. Later portrayals simplify his body shape from cylindrical to drop-shaped. Depiction not substantially different from other cartoon whales.
- Characters.PAW Patrol: She has a slightly square-shaped body with greyish-blue skin. The same applies to her mother, only she's completely gray and has bluish spots. No description of how these particular whales are different from other cartoon whales.
- Characters.Sponge Bob Square Pants Main Characters: A gray whale with a square head. Justified since the creators say she's a sperm whale. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Characters.The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack: Downplayed. She's a light blue whale with baleen features and a wide grin, but she is shaped more like a teardrop than a square. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- ComicStrip.The Far Side: Usually depicts whales as sperm whales with upper teeth. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Franchise.Super Mario Bros: Whales are typically depicted as squared, blocky creatures with small tails growing from their trailing sides, such as in Super Mario Bros. 2, or as rounded, teardrop-shaped animals, such as Paper Mario 64. Regardless of the type, they're always blue or purple in color. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- OnePiece.Tropes C To D: Downplayed with Laboon, whose head is a little more rounded than usual but otherwise fits the image to a T. Doesn't describe much of a meaningful difference from other cartoon whales.
- PhineasAndFerb.Tropes A To C: Agent W is usually depicted realistically, but in his first appearance, he's depicted as a sperm whale with its eyes too close to its mouth. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Pokemon.Tropes A To I: The Wailord evolutionary family can be described as the cross between a blue whale and a zeppelin. Both Pokémon also possess baleens shaped like a single Tooth Strip. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Recap.Family Guy S 12 E 9 Peter Problems: The beached whale Peter tries to save with a forklift is gray, blocky, and toothy. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Recap.Futurama S 6 E 15 Mobius Dick: The Space Whale looks like a stereotypical cartoon sperm whale with upper teeth, cavernous jaws, and belly-lining. Justified given that it's, well, a space whale. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Recap.Scooby Doo Where Are You S 2 E 3 Scoobys Night With A Frozen Fright: The whale kept at Oceanland resembles a sperm whale, albeit smaller. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- Recap.The Simpsons S 10 E 18 Simpsons Bible Stories: When Goliath II (Nelson Muntz in Bart's dream) spits out the skeleton of the whale that swallowed Jonah, the skull is square-shaped. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- VideoGame.Chipper And Sons Lumber Co: A duo of whales, Smoothie and Phil, can be found playing chess underwater. One is grey and one is blue, both have large squarish heads. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- VideoGame.Freddi Fish: Fluke the Whale in Freddi Fish and the Case of The Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch is a sperm whale with a square head (sperm whales have rectangular heads). No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- VideoGame.Freddi Fish 4 The Case Of The Hogfish Rustlers Of Briny Gulch: Fluke the Whale is a sperm whale with a square head (sperm whales have rectangular heads) and very humanlike teeth. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- VideoGame.Hungry Shark Evolution: Depicts Moby Dick as a toothy, square-headed whale. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- VideoGame.Kirby Super Star: Downplayed. Fatty Whale, a boss that first appears in The Great Cave Offensive, is a dark blue whale with baleen and a wide grin. However, he is compact and rounded and lacks a square-shaped head. No description of how this particular whale substantially differs from other cartoon whales.
- WebAnimation.Homestar Runner: There's the Drive-Thru Whale, mascot of the Blubb-O's fast food chain, who resembles a blue sperm whale with large, flat teeth. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.Bubble Guppies: White Whale from "X Marks the Spot!" is a blocky whale with a toothy mouth. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.Bugs Bunny Builders: The blue whales that appear in "Sea School" and "Underwater Star" have square-shaped heads. Winston Whale from "Mail Whale" looks like a blue sperm whale with his eyes too close to his mouth (which is drawn as a regular mouth rather than the thin jaws of sperm whales). No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.Magic Adventures Of Mumfie: Whale is a grey-blue whale who is square-shaped. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.Moby Dick Hanna Barbera: Moby Dick is drawn as a huge, high-forehead white whale. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.Peg Plus Cat: In "The Allergy Problem", a whale accidentally swallows Peg, Cat, and Ramone. She looks like a solid gray, slightly blocky whale. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.Scooby Doo Where Are You: The whale in "Scooby's Night With a Frozen Fright" is drawn as resembling a sperm whale, despite being kept in a marine park. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.The Little Mermaid 1992: A whale modeled after Monstro appears in the episode "Resigned to It". Sebastian flosses the teeth of the massive behemoth by using a strand of seaweed. Because of its length, it ends up tickling his gums, causing him to suck in Ariel, Flounder, and Sebastian, releasing them with a powerful sneeze. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
- WesternAnimation.The Octonauts: Sperm whales and to a lesser extent, orcas (which are technically dolphins, but still) get depicted this way due to the stylized animation. To the show's credit, it depicts its sperm whales with teeth only in their lower jaws, unlike other cartoons that show them with upper and lower dentition. Averted (as much as can be possible for a kid's cartoon) with baleen whales. No description of how this particular whale differs from other cartoon whales.
Zero-context examples (2/39)
- Characters.My Fathers Dragon: If she were slightly more rectangular, she'd nail the exact look of this trope. Lacking much context.
- VideoGame.Lil Gator Game: Non-Standard Character Design: Billy the blue whale is the only one of the Funny Animal cast who doesn't have a humanoid design and pretty much looks like a Cartoon Whale, right down to being confined to water. Low context pothole.
Unclear and other (3/39)
- Characters.Nimona 2023: One of her forms, which she uses to crash through any opposition, including the floor. Doesn't even describe what it looks like.
- ComicStrip.Little Lulu: In a comic story, Lulu goes to the beach with Alvin. The mischievous little boy flies with a parasol 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 like Monstro), that swims desperately to the beach and gets stuck. Lulu and Alvin fall on the sand; she picks up his hand and they run among the crowd that gathers to see the poor stuck animal. Barely even describes what the whale looks like.
- VideoGame.Deathbulge Battle Of The Bands: This game has a whale who could sing. Because the Big Puff Ensemble recorded his songs without his knowledge, he wants payback. Ian can summon him by using the Zero Hertz mod. Just describes a whale character. Misuse.
Unclassifiable (6/39)
- Artistic License – Biology On an index.
- Dolphins, Dolphins Everywhere Index.
- Stock Room Index.
- ImageSource.Western Animation Index.
- Laconic.Cartoon Whale Laconic.
- Newsletter.News 202301 Trope Report.
