Best Russian characters in animation

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Saradomin !

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In any great cartoon/anime,who do think are the best/most interesting Russian characters(hero or villain),which I find Russian accents the most interesting:Dbesides the Irish/Scottish/Canadian accents.

My reasons:

Boris & Natasha(Rocky & Bullwinkle) - Best Russian spy villains to catch Rocky & Bullwinkle,but their plans always backfire,hehehehe,& their pet gorilla Rolo was kind of cool.

Baroness(G.I.Joe/G.I.Joe Sigma Six) - She was a great Russian villainess back in the classics who's one of the top members of Cobra which her old school/anime appearances were awesome which her design in G.I.Joe Sigma 6 was pretty cool & her catfight with Scarlett from the CGI movie was awesome:D.

Magica De Spell(Ducktales) - The best Russian villainess ever next to my favorites,The Beagle Boys which June Foray did an excellent job with her Russian accent.

Linka(Captain Planet) - My favorite female character which I'm surprised that she's Russian by her accent which Kath Soucie did a great job with her character.

Mousie Galore(Pinky & the Brain) - She was a cute,but awesome Russian mouse villainess:anime:since I wish she had more screentime though.

Molotov(Venture Bros.) - She was an awesome Russian villainess which her fight with Brock in season 1 & her episode,Assassinanny 911 was awesome & how she sent those 3 assassins and has Brock's mentor to work for her was pretty devious which her major role in season 4 is gonna be awesome:evil:.

Van Rook/Pietro "Piecemeal" Maltese(The Secret Saturdays) - Van was an interesting mercenary villain which I wonder how he met Doyle,Drew's long-lost brother as his apprentice:confused:which Corey Burton voiced him well next to V.V.Argost.Pietro was hideous/scary/interesting which I think he's Russian as well.

Rassimov(Huntik:Seekers & Secrets) - When I first saw him,he's the greatest top member of the Professor's Organization & became my favorite Russian villain ever:evil:.

Maria(Sakura Taisen/Wars) - My most favorite female member of the Flower Division which she's an awesome markswoman & has a great tragic past as well which got me to like her character more:anime:& I love her "Sanji likeness design:p.

Comrade Turbinski(Ultimate Muscle) - Cool Chojin wrestler from Russia which he has cool aerial combat transformation powers,him & Meat worked well together in three-leg race while being a jerk to him & fought a good battle with Kevin before he was brutally beatened by his OLAP move:evil:.

King Wapol(One Piece) - My most favorite villain which I love his weird/freaky DF power which I'm surprised 4Kids gave him a Russian accent which I think is best suited for him.

Gustav(Zatch Bell!) - Bari's spellcaster who was awesome/interesting on knowing about Kiyo/Zatch's real goals & Crispin Freeman did awesome with the Russian accent besides Van's French accent from Blood+.
 
I thought Baroness and Magica where more of a vaguely eastern European persuasion then specifically Russian. Anyway, it's highly doubtful the Baroness was meant to be Russian considering her aristocratic background and the time period of G.I. Joe.
 
In the original comics Magica is Italian (I guess someone at Disney didn't do all the research :sweat:) . I'm also with Darklordavaitor on Boris and Natasha. Why? Because they are classic cartoon villains even if they are incompident at times (they would succed if it weren't for their terrible luck). Oh, yeah and June Foray does do an awsome Russian accent. The Mouseoquets also have my vote, since they're such a great family and really relatable. :yawn:
 
The Mousekewitz family were not ethnic Russians, they were Jews. On the other hand, the Russian cats shown in that film were shown in that film were little more then savage Jew-hating orges. Not really a positive or balanced view in any sense, but that was never the point of the story.

In fact a lot of the characters mentioned in this thread are not Russians. Van Rook? Probably Dutch. Piecemeal? He was mentioned as being of Italian nationality. The Baroness? I think the comics mention that she was of German origin, at any rate she was never supposed to be Russian. Magica? She came from the Ducktails version of Romania, which is not even a Slavic nation. Madame Rouge? She's French. As for Walpol, he was never supposed to be Russian in the first place. Giving him a corny accent did not make him funnier, no matter what 4K!ds thought.

Russians tend to get a bum rap in animation and Western media in general. They are a fascinating people with many different quirks that could be used to create a really intersting character in a given show when done properly.

As for my vote, I think Russia (from Axis Powers Hetalia) and Andrei Kalinin in Full Metal Panic! are both very cool characters, even if Russia is totally out of his mind. The Russian characters from Chevalier d'Eon were in general a pretty well written bunch of characters as well.
 
Are most of them even Russian? Most cartoons just use a generic East European third world accent for characters like that.
 
I was going to mention Magica being Italian in the original comics, but it seems that Harukuro beat me to it.

A great Russian villain, who also existed in real-life is General Semenov in the "Corto Maltese" comic & animated movie. That guy was chillingly evil, especially in the scene when he kills that prostitute/sex-slave: "You've started to think? Oh, Mashka, Mashka, when an object wants to become a subject, there's no further use for it."

Oh, and of course, there's my favorite "Darkwing Duck" villain; the incomparable Taurus Bulba, voiced by the great Tim Curry. I always thought that it was a waste that he only got three episodes (or two if you count the two-part "Darkly Dawns the Duck" as one long episode) while less competent, albeit fairly entertaining villains like Quackerjack and Megavolt hogged the spotlight.
 
More screen time? She was only in 1 episode, and that was an alternate reality.

How could you include a one-shot character on your list and not include Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale from Rocky & Bullwinkle? Faux Pas, m'friend.
 
Well, Russia has been that vast, mysterious, autocratic somewhat-if-not-outright-hostile empire since...Well, the time of the Czars, really. But if it makes you feel any better, some Russain non-villians:

Colossus--the steel skined mutant from X-Men: TAS and X-Men: Evolution. He usually has a good episode. 'Specially the Omega Red episode from TAS... Though if you insist on being technical, he's actually from the Ukrain, rather than Russia itself.

Most of the cast of Anastasia--Don Bluth's movie for Fox. The core cast--Anya, Dimitri, Vlad--are Russian, and the whole first part of the movie is set there. And set during a very rough time in Russian history. When the revolution was still young. To quote Vlad "...about this country. Everything is going red..."
 
Anime are cartoons, just cartoons from Japan. It it's drawn or animated, then it's a cartoon, regardless of its' country of origin.

-Didn't mean to go off-topic and open that can o' worms again, but I disagree with the mentality that anime and cartoons are 2 separate beasts. That reeks of anime elitism to me.

Anyways, back to the topic, I nominate Tala from Justice League Unlimited. I don't think she was ever concretely characterized as being Russian, just merely an implied Eastern European, but I thought Juliet Landau did a credible job of voicing the sorceress.
 
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