Toon

The term toon is an abbreviation of the word cartoon , which is believed to have found its way through the name of Looney Tunes , a Warner Bros. animated series . The term was introduced in 1981 by the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf and the subsequent adaptation as the feature film Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit .

properties

Toons are humanized animals or objects that are depicted in a highly caricatured manner. They survive life-threatening accidents where they z. B. disintegrate to dust and still play in the next scene, mostly unharmed. You do not obey the normal physical laws.

With very few exceptions (e.g. claws), unlike humans, toons have 4 fingers (including thumb) on each hand.

Many of the characters are designed to have a single goal, e.g. B .:

Elmer Fudd is only busy hunting, while others only keep an eye on their prey.
The cat Sylvester in Sylvester and Tweety is constantly chasing after the bird Tweety.
Wile E. Coyote tries to get hold of the Roadrunner .

Mixing people and cartoon

In response to the film, there was an increasing mixture of cartoon characters and real people within animations. The characters follow different laws: While humans are subject to normal physical properties, the toons have all the skills known from the cartoons. As an example of this, the films like the already mentioned and often Oscar-winning Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit (1988) as well as Cool World (1992, in which the toons were referred to as "Doodles") and Space Jam (1996) can be seen. But even in pure cartoon animations, like in Bonkers , people were mixed with cartoon characters.