History Main / Toon

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Not to be confused with [[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} the tabletop game]] by Steve Jackson or [[UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague Newcastle United]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': This movie has realistic animation (although highly stylized), but also features the clearly cartoon-inspired ComicBook/SpiderHam, hailing from an AlternateTooniverse, who can still use ToonPhysics to great effect in this different AlternateUniverse.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' has toons living in the same world as humans and [[FantasticRacism being treated poorly by them]]. ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'' features a similar premise in the modern day, and in fact is implied to be a StealthSequel.

* Many Creator/{{Nicktoons}} (Such as ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' and most notoriously ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', which was the main inspiration for Wooldor Sockbat from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'') fall into this category.

* Many Creator/{{Nicktoons}} (Such as ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' and most notoriously''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', which was the main inspiration for Wooldor Sockbat from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'') fall into this category.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' features a whole world of Toons made of chalk, with many of its inhabitants being originally cartoons drawn in a chalkboard.

* Most classic Creator/{{Nicktoons}} fall into this category.

* The Disney series ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' was about a cartoon cat who joined an all-human police force, and drove his human partner to distraction with his zany cartoon antics, in a fairly obvious pastiche of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. However, since the show itself was animated, the proper effect was achieved by giving all the normal human characters subdued and muted color schemes.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' has toons living in the same world as humans and [[FantasticRacism being treated poorly by them]].

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady character is this on ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'', using a SubvertedKidsShow aesthetic, a cartoonish CreepyHighPitchedVoice and constantly rattling around through physically impossible, violent situations (complete with sound effects and silly voices from appalled bystanders), using cartoon tropes like TheyKilledKennyAgain, AmusingInjuries and MajorInjuryUnderreaction. Promotional photographs for the album show Slim Shady smiling and waving in front of a cartoon backdrop, and at one point in "Role Model" Slim jumps "into a Chickenhawk cartoon and beat[s] up WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn with an acorn". In later albums, these elements are toned down and Slim starts taking more influence from HorrorTropes, but they're never gone entirely. (Think of the verse in ''Relapse'''s "Insane" where Slim [[WildTake eats his chainsaw, shoots himself in the face with a slingshot, pops his eyeball out, plays ping-pong with it...]])

* Though it's never said directly on the show the characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' are all this.

Not to be confused with [[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} the tabletop game]] by Steve Jackson or [[UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague Newcastle United]]

''[[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} Click here for the role-playing game of the same name by Steve Jackson]]''

Not to be confused with [[UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague Newcastle United.]]

** Made even worse in the anime and manga in that they can abuse ToonPhysics to do things like contort to dodge attacks, or quite frankly do the impossible (such as a BarehandedBladeBlock from an armless clamshell in Toon Mermaid's case in the anime).

* The Cel-Shaded variation of Link from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' is given the moniker "Toon Link" in Super Smash Bros Brawl and has a more, pardon the pun, animated and comical personality than the "main" ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' inspired Link. His actual design however is more {{animesque}}.

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' features the titular protagonist as well as other Disney Toons, most of which are either animatronic replicas or long-forgotten Disney Toons who were sent to live in Yen Sid's Wasteland after being forgotten and losing their Hearts, the most notable forgotten Toon being WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, Mickey's predecessor and his [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]], [[TheResenter resentful]] [[LongLostRelative older half-brother]].
* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' is this played for horror.
* All the characters in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' are this as an homage to the animation from the Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer cartoons back in the 1930s.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Pegasus uses a card called "Toon World", which turns his monsters into toons. They also do this to other player's monsters, if Pegasus takes hold of them... which infuriates Kaiba when it happens to his Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

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* In the early 90s kid commercials embraced this.

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* The Ralph Bakshi film ''Film/CoolWorld'' is an example of a blend of different styles from traditional goofy types to extremely grotesque and realistically drawn abominations. Most of the cartoon characters (referred to as "Doodles" in-universe) fall under this distinction, with the exception of Holli Wood and other more human characters.

* Creator/ToonDisney, in its heyday, aired exclusively WesternAnimation, mainly from Disney, and in its promos featured the word "toon." Except the word "toon" can come off as ambiguous in them; it can mean the programming featured, as in "around the clock toons," or the characters in said programming, as in its slogan "built from the best toons." It's one of the few cases where the word Toon was used without the notion that the Toon are made of paint, and without the idea of AnimatedActors.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': This movie has realistic animation (although highly stylized), but also feature the clearly cartoon-inspired Spider-Ham, hailing from an AlternateTooniverse, who can still use ToonPhysics to great effect in this different AlternateUniverse.

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* The above is subverted in ''Film/LastActionHero'', in which Jack Slater describes the cartoon cat Whiskers as one of the best guys on the force. He has a few overexaggerated mannerisms, but nothing that wouldn't fit on a human. Whiskers later [[spoiler: saves his life by shooting the bad guy threatening him.]]

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* After being transformed, the characters in ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'' remain live action (aside from Roy's eyes), but start acting like toons, and operating under toon logic.

* Most classic {{Creator/Nicktoons}} fall into this category.

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' features the titular protagonist as well as other Disney Toons, most of which are either animatronic replicas or long-forgotten Disney Toons who were sent to live in Yen Sid's Wasteland after being forgotten and losing their Hearts, the most notable forgotten Toon being Main/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, Mickey's predecessor and his [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]], [[TheResenter resentful]] [[LongLostRelative older half-brother]].