List of fictional marsupials
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Article ImagesThis List of fictional marsupials is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable marsupial characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples in literature, film, television, comics, animation, video games and legends. This list covers all marsupials including opossums, marsupial moles, bandicoots, bilbies, wombats, koalas, kangaroos, wallaroos and wallabies.
Literature
Name | Species | Work | Author | Notes |
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Ginger Kangaroo | Kangaroo | Spot the Dog | Eric Hill | |
Kidding Kangaroo | Kangaroo | Sweet Pickles | Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach and Richard Hefter | |
Old Man Kangaroo | Kangaroo | The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo | Rudyard Kipling | [1] |
Roo and his mother, Kanga | Kangaroo | Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne | |
Red Kangaroo | Kangaroo, Red | Dot and the Kangaroo | Ethel C. Pedley | |
Blinky Bill | Koala | Blinky Bill stories | Dorothy Wall | |
The Muddle-Headed Wombat | Wombat | The Muddle-Headed Wombat | Ruth Park | From the radio serial of the same name. |
Penelope | Koala | Penelope | Anne Gutman |
Comics
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Dave | Kangaroo | Beyond the Black Stump | |
Chimera Punch | Kangaroo | Tokyo Mew Mew | |
Kangaroo | Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos | ||
Bruce | Koala | Beyond the Stump | |
Katy | Koala | Beyond the Stump | |
Pogo | Opossum | Walt Kelly's comic strip of the same name | |
Akira Warabi/ Wallaby | Wallaby | Wallaby | Manga comic |
Clive | Wombat | Beyond the Black Stump |
Film, Television, and Radio
Name | Species | Work | Notes | Media |
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Clive | Kangaroo | Radio Roo | A puppet kangaroo character voiced by Ian Tregonning. | Television |
Bopp-A-Roo | Kangaroo | Power Rangers: Ninja Storm | A robotic kangaroo monster that liked to box and speak in made up words. | Television |
Matilda | Kangaroo | Matilda | A boxing kangaroo promoted to perform by a small-time talent agent. | Film |
Skippy | Kangaroo | Skippy the Bush Kangaroo | Skippy was played by at least nine different kangaroos. [3] | Film |
The Muddle-Headed Wombat | Wombat | The Muddle-Headed Wombat | Ruth Park's radio serial of the same name. | Radio |
Animation
Video games
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Crash, Coco, Crunch and others | Bandicoot | Crash Bandicoot series | |
Ripper Roo | Kangaroo | Crash Bandicoot | A crazy Blue Kangaroo villain. |
Bungalow | Kangaroo | Fur Fighters | |
Matilda | Kangaroo | Sierra Championship Boxing | |
Pinstripe Potoroo | Potoroo | Crash Bandicoot | |
Ricky | Kangaroo | The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages | |
Roger | Kangaroo | Tekken | |
Rooey | Kangaroo | Bomberman | |
Roo | Kangaroo | Streets of Rage 3 | |
Sheila the Kangaroo | Kangaroo | Spyro the Dragon | |
Kangaroo | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | |
Koala Kong | Koala | Crash Bandicoot | A villainous koala. |
Viscount | Tasmanian devil | Crash Boom Bang! | |
Ty, Sly | Tasmanian Tiger | Ty the Tasmanian Tiger |
Folklore and legends
Name | Species | Folklore of | Notes |
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Phantom kangaroo | Kangaroo | Germany, United Kingdom, United States, France, and Australia |
Advertising mascots
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Duncan | Kangaroo | Dunk-a-roos mascot. | |
Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat | Wombat | Humorous unofficial Olympic mascot of the 2000 Summer Olympics created by The Dream with Roy and HG. | |
Hopper | Kangaroo | Dish Network mascot |
References
- ^ Tim Fridtjof Flannery, Country: a continent, a scientist & a kangaroo
- ^ Dieter Petzold (Spring 1987), "Fantasy out of Myth and Fable", Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 12 (1): 15–19, doi:10.1353/chq.0.0596
- ^ "Skippy: Australia's first ambassador". The Independent Weekly. 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
'Skippy was the first series, internationally, to put Australian characters and settings on screen with confidence in a way that rang bells with people around the world,' says National Film and Sound Archive historian Graham Shirley in the new documentary, Skippy: Australia's First Superstar, from Electric Pictures.
- ^ Jean Prescott (April 19, 1996). "Rocko And The Gang Take On Pollution". The Sun Herald. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
The pudgy little wallaby star of Joe Murray's squash-and-stretch cartoon series, Rocko's Modern Life, always tries to do what's right. Sometimes he fails. Sometimes temptation turns him from the righteous path, but he tries. It's what makes him lovable, that and his wardrobe of Hawaiian shirts and his devotion to Spunky and Heffer, his dog and best friend respectively.