Characters
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This is a list of characters in the comic strip and cartoon show Garfield.
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[edit] Main Characters
[edit] Garfield
Fat orange cat with distinctive black stripes and an attitude. He hates Mondays (not applicable if it's also his birthday), loves to eat and sleep (both to amazing amounts), watch TV, and play jokes on Jon and Odie. He enjoys tormenting the mailman. His favorite food is lasagna, and he loves to snack on canaries ("you can't eat just one canary!"); however, he hates raisins and spinach].Also has sickness problems like: sleep attacks. He refuses to eat mice ("Show me a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath"), and has befriended several. He does, however, hate spiders. He is on number 8 of his 9 lives. He first appeared on June 19, 1978.
[edit] Jon Arbuckle
Garfield and Odie's owner, a total nerd and clumsy individual who is extremely pathetic in the world of dating and coolness. He is constantly striking out when trying to get dates with women, perhaps due to his ridiculous pick-up lines (said to a woman in the grocery store: "you must be today's special, because you're making me hungry") or loud and flashy outfits. His biggest crush is Dr. Liz Wilson, Garfield and Odie's vet, who has gone out with him a few times but the dates were usually unsuccessful. Jon is the primary fodder and conversation partner to Garfield and is often the butt of his jokes. He was (possibly still is, due to it never being contradicted) a cartoonist, but this reference has not been seen since the early days of the comic strip. Whatever his occupation, Jon still manages to make enough money to keep Garfield in lasagna -- no easy feat. Often, Jon, as well as Garfield, gets bored, and comes up with "fun" ways to cure boredom (such as buying new socks, or clipping his toenails). His full name has been revealed as Jonathan Q. Arbuckle in a Christmas strip. He first appeared on June 19, 1978. His birthday has been revealed to be July 28 (which is the same as that of Jim Davis). On December 23, 1980, Jon tells Garfield that he is 30 years old (he makes a joke about only being 29 because he was sick a year). This would make Jon's birthdate July 28], 1950, and his current age 58 years old. In the live-action films (such as Garfield: The Movie and Garfield's A Tale of Two Kitties), he became Dr. Liz Wilson's "boyfriend/partner".
[edit] Odie
Loveable but dopey yellow-furred, brown-eared dog constantly panting with his very large tongue, and the only character without a "voice" (though he was once shown to be thinking "I'm hungry", and in Garfield in the Rough, he "says" "I'm afraid!" over and over, faster and faster, in the "Run, Run!" scene (though this is not confirmed). More recently, he was seen actually speaking in one of Garfield's dream sequences). One strip shows him enjoying classical music on the TV with a simple novel, War and Peace, in his lap after Jon and Garfield leave the house. Often kicked off the table by Garfield or the victim of some practical joke. Odie's original owner was Lyman, a friend and roommate to Jon Arbuckle. He first appeared on August 8, 1978. However, Lyman disappeared in 1983 and Odie became a pet to Jon. Odie is, to Garfield, a complete slobbering idiot (though it's not the actual case since Odie did manage to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield usually cannot notice it). He is rarely seen without his giant tongue and drooling. Recently, Odie seems to be walking on two feet more often.
[edit] Arlene
(appears in comic strip and films only)
Garfield's on-and-off girlfriend. A thin pink cat who seems to be the one living thing in the world who can successfully crack jokes at Garfield on a regular basis. She has distinctively big lips and a very thin neck. Earlier in the series she also had a gap between her teeth; she also appeared more often than now. She first appeared on December 17, 1980. Although she never appeared on the animated series (with the exception of a cameo appearance in the fourth season), she appeared in the film version as well.
[edit] Pooky
Garfield's huggable teddy bear. First appearance was October 23, 1978. The strip shows Garfield searching through Jon Arbuckle's bottom drawer, finding Pooky, and adopting him as his own. His first appearance in the TV Series was Ode To Odie, but he was yellow that time. His biggest role in the TV Series was The Caped Avenger, where he was missing. It is also shown that Pooky may be a real-live animal because in one strip, he cried when Garfield refused to play with him because he had amnesia. In the December 3, 1981 strip of Garfield, he had his biggest appearance, where he is almost as tall as Garfield, and Nermal was sleeping on him. Pooky has been in the two-first live-action Garfield films in a cameo appearance. But it is certain that Pooky is lost in the Animal Kennel, or Garfield returned to get him after his throne ended in United Kingdom. However, Pooky was much more smaller in the movies than he was in the comic strip and TV Series.
[edit] Nermal
Cute gray kitten who flaunts his cuteness (the cutest kitten in the world, he says), which annoys Garfield immensely, he also has a very sarcastic attitude, usually resulting in Garfield trying to ship Nermal to Abu Dhabi. Often comes in unannounced, much to Garfield's chagrin, particularly by waking him up by shouting hello so loud that he jumps out of his bed. When he first appeared, he was owned by Jon's parents, but that connection was quickly dropped from the strip. When we see him, it is usually because Jon has to babysit him. He is not seen on Jon's parents' farm. Because of his eyelashes and seemingly effeminate personality, fans have often mistaken him as a girl; viewers of the television series will know that Nermal's voice sounded like a woman (he was in fact voiced by Desiree Goyette]). He first appeared on September 3, 1979. However, in Garfield: The Movie, Nermal appears as an adult Siamese rather than as a cute kitten.
[edit] Arbuckle Family
[edit] Supporting characters
[edit] Secondary characters
- Hubert and Reba
- Mrs. Feeny
- Sonja, Garfield's mother
- The Mice
- The Spiders
- Clive
- Binky the Clown
- Stretch
- Little chick
- Big vicious dog
- Mondays
- The Splut Pies
- Santa Claus
- Herbie
[edit] U.S. Acres Characters
[edit] Television only characters
[edit] Garfield gets Real
Shecky is a fan of Garfield and his comic trip and knows all about the characters, even though he doesn't believe they're really from The Cartoon World. Later in the movie, he introduces Garfield and Odie,Waldo, and Shelia. He was tied by Hale and Hardy with Garfield and Odie, but they were all rescued. He also made an appearance in Garfield's Fun Fest, doing his performance.
Hale and Hardy are the main antagonists in the movie. they were one of comic strip competitors at the Daily Indiana Chronicle Newspapers to replace Garfield's comic Strip. However, before they could be chose, Garfield and Odie was given a chance to return to the newspapers (including the Comic World) before 24 hours were up. Later at night time, Hale and Hardy tied Garfield, Odie, and Shecky by the legs. But soon, they were all saved, and the next day, Hale and Hardy were fighting each other because of Garfield and Odie returning into the Cartoon World to make their Comic Strips back into the Newspapers.
[edit] Garfield's Fun Fest
- Ramone is the main antagonist in the film Garfield's Fun Fest. He is a Mexican cat with a cheesy accent attached
to Arlene's beauty. In the end, it s revealed that Ramone is a cyborg, but than, after revealed he is a cyborg, he is actually Nermal in a robot disguise, and Nermal had cheated in the Fun Fest to claim the trophy and award for himself to end Garfield's championship reign over the Fun Fest Awards. Ramone was the MC of the Fun Fest, and this can explain why Garfield was absent. While battling Garfield at the Fun Fest, Garfield pulled off his arm, but then Ramone was still able to dance with Arlene, but she had now realized she was kissed and romanced by a robot. Garfield pulled off one of his legs, but then, Ramone still only had body that was functioned. Garifeld finally tore off the mask of Ramone, and Nermal's face was revealed!
