Cartoon characters you can relate to?

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Ijong

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This kind of thread is probably as old as the hills but are there any cartoon characters out there you can connect with personality-wise or appearence-wise? Let's see, for me:

Chris Griffin (Family Guy): One time, someone in my high school class compared me with Chris and I agreed with him. I'm fat, blond and socially awkward but I'm not dumb and like Chris, I tend to be a little artistic.

Tummi Gummi (Gummi Bears): He kind of reminds me of myself the same way as Chris does.

Dukey (Johnny Test): I feel like Dukey represents the darker, more anxiety-ridden side to my personality. Also like Dukey, I become rather cynical about things due to bad past experiences and I'm prone to outbursts when under stress. Maybe it's just my Asperger's but yeah, I can connect with him. Also like him, I'm very close to my family but a little aloof and shy when it comes to strangers.

Sakaki (Azuimanga Daioh): Physically, she's the exact opposite of me but personality-wise, the resemblence is uncanny.

DJ (Total Drama series): In a way, I'm kinda like a white version of DJ. I'm large, an animal lover and a bit of a mama's boy.
 
I know exactly how Meg Griffin feels. All throughout elementary and middle school, I was the loner kid whom everyone else picked on for no apparent reason. People would often go out of their way to make me feel bad about myself, and it got me pretty depressed on more than one occasion. (Fortunately, things turned around for me in high school and college.) That's why I get so enraged whenever I witness the crap Meg has to go through on "Family Guy" - I didn't deserve it, and neither does she. All we ever asked for was acceptance as a human being.
 
Huey Freeman- Boondocks likes Rap&Hip-hop and hes intelligent and icy and best of all brutally honest
Harold-Total Drama Franchise-I'm a black version of Harold basically is a nerd learns everything from TV
 
Cody (Total Drama Island)-I have him as my avatar for a reason. I was him in my teen years, the unpopular guy. I wasn't like him in the fact that I was mostly withdrawn, but whenever I did try to fit in, I'd always overcompensate and act like a dork. Plus, I've lost the girl before because I was too eager. He seems like me: a nice guy who manages to mess things up because he doesn't know how to act.

Butters (South Park)-If Cody was my teen years, Butters was my childhood. I was bullied everyday in elementry school, I was so naive that I believed anything, and I was very socially awkward. At that age, I just wanted everyone to be happy, I still do. Thankfully, the abusive parents Butters has didn't represent mine, but the school life did. I'm still recovering from how bad my childhood was screwed up.

Wilt (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)-I'm way too much of a doormat. Whenever someone criticizes me, my first response is to take it, especially if someone claims I've been rude or insulting. I've regretted this several times, because often I realize that the guy criticizing me was not in a position to do so. Then of course, unlike Wilt, I have the opposite problem, I'll argue against anything they say, even when I think they had valid points. But I digress.

Plus, I like to help people.

Daffy Duck-Lately, I've felt this guy's frustration. I work hard but seem to come up short lately. And when I'm frusterated, I get a short temper and start snapping at people. Then I feel guilty, get sad, and as a result get more frustrated. Soon I'm feeling like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. (On a related subject, my mother, who suffered from clinical depression, loved that character).

So, there ya go.
 
There's probably more, but I can only think of one character that I relate to the most at the moment.

Syrus/Sho (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX): Like Syrus, I have had self-confidence issues and I've also been nervous to stand up for myself. I would like to hope that I have improved in both departments by this point. He also seems like a sensitive person, which I am as well. When I was first watching GX, Syrus did seem the most like me and he is the one Yu-Gi-Oh! character in any series that I can relate to the most. That's also why I loved seeing him become a bit more confident as the series continued.

I also feel nervous like he does in certain situations, especially with his relationship with his older brother, Ryo/Zane. It almost kind of parallels how I felt about my big brother when I was little, except for their relationship focusing more on the card game than anything else and my brother luckily didn't turn out exactly like Zane did in the later seasons. Though, the card game would have made things more fun, or at least more interesting, when the two of us were little.
 
Gee, i dunno... Dr . Doom? I know that must sound terrible, but honestly now, don't we all tend to think that "the world would so much better if i ruled it"? :p
 
Brock from Pokemon. Always having trouble getting a girl, and no there isn't someone stopping me like a little punk named Max, Misty, or Croagunk Poison Jabbing me everytime.
 
Do movie characters count?

If so, I really relate to Flint Lockwood from 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'. The only major differences is that I'm an artist (he's a scientist) and I actually have a very good relationship with my dad (think like Earl and Cal's in this case), though my mom and I often don't always see eye to eye (but we still love each other). And while they don't really "get" my art stuff -since neither one of my parents are artists-, they're the exact opposite of Tim and are more like Flint's mom and encourage me in my artistic endeavors.

The main thing being we're both incredibly socially awkward people who try to make things to make life better, yet in the end fail miserably. Plus there's the obligatory being made fun of in school -and even into adulthood- for said talents/ideas, but never once giving up even if the cards are always against you (and occasionally having those moments where you do feel like "junk").

And I also do have a habit of saying whatever action I'm doing and occasionally humming music as I'm walking/running from place to place.
 
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