Medium: Animation
Title: Steven Universe
Bio: They build hospitals for the sick, and they build muscles that look slick.
Signature Move: Gross misuse of safety equipment and the public’s tax dollars.
Tag: Animation
Mad Dog Hoek & Killer Kadoogan
Medium: Animation
Title: The Ren & Stimpy Show
Bio: Two tiny, masked, anthropomorphic grapplers who were known for overcoming the odds and defeating opponents three times their size, despite barely getting any offense in.
Signature Move: The Blister Popper.
Man Mountain
Medium: Animation
Title: Porky the Wrestler
Bio: A giant ogre of a man who ruled the wrestling circuits of the 1930’s. Suffered the biggest and most embarrassing loss of his career on a fluke to newcomer Porky Pig.
Signature Move: The airplane spin.
Looney Tunes
“Porky the Wrestler”
No. 153
1/9/1937
Long before Bugs Bunny donned a mask and stepped into the squared circle for some slapstick shenanigans, his brother from a Warner Brother, Porky Pig, was the first Looney ‘toon to step into the ring.
Lump and Loaf
Medium: Animation
Title: The Ren and Stimpy Show
Bio: Lump and Loaf are of the big, bald, and mean as shit variety of cartoon wrestlers. They will beat the crap out of your animated heroes using well-known cartoon holds, like rolling their opponents into a ball. But when it’s all said and done and it’s time to go home, they’ll happily lie down for their opponents.
Signature Move: Doing the job.
El Rey
Medium:Â Animation
Title: Viva Lucha
Bio: A once decorated champion luchador, El Rey has since moved on from the squared circle to the tiny confines of an office cubicle. Faced with his greatest rival yet, a malfunctioning copier.
Signature Move: Processing TPS reports.
Rugrats
“Wrestling Grandpa”
Season 6, Episode 18
5/1/1999
 If you thought Abe Simpson was the only wrestling grandpa, guess again. Before Glamorous Godfrey took to the squared circle on our TV sets, Pretzel-Maker Pickles was contorting wrestlers into… human pretzels. At least, it’s assumed he did because of the name. Either that or being employed by Wetzel’s Pretzels was part of the gimmick.
Create-A-Wrestler: Pretzel-Maker Pickles
Medium:Â Animation
Title:Â Rugrats
Bio: Pretzel-Maker Pickles stepped out of retirement to face his greatest adversary in the senior’s division, Conan “The Crusher” McNulty. With the championship title on the line, Pickles tried his best but was no match for McNulty’s underhanded tactics. Pickles was then awarded the Senior’s Division Championship after McNulty was exposed as a cheater.
Signature Move: Babysitting children.
Create-A-Wrestler: Conan “The Crusher” McNulty
Medium: Animation
Title: Rugrats
Bio:Â Conan “The Crusher” McNulty ruled the senior’s wrestling division with an iron first and a can of motor oil. With his opponents unable to grab McNulty long enough to slap on a wrestling hold, McNulty was free to tickle them into submission. His reign as Senior’s Division Champion was put to an end by his arch-rival, Pretzel-Maker Pickles.
Signature Move: Tickling.
World Wide Wrestling Web: Viva Lucha
Here’s an animated short film from a group of art students from the School of Visual Arts/ Computer Art department. It’s a pretty cool reminder that more animated CGIÂ films (both short and feature-length) should be made about luchadores.
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