Unseen/mentioned characters in animation

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mumupie

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Mostly in TV animation you would often hear the main character or one of his/her friends mention a character that we havent seen. Like a parent or a brother. And often times in the series you usually get a little piece of info on that character and it often brings your mind with questions. So what are tv shows{or even films for the matter} that has the characters mentioning characters that we don't see?

Ed Edd N eddy has done this a couple of times, mostly with eddy's brother{before the movie happened}. And with the parents of the characters.
 
A running gag on Tiny Toon Adventures was Babs occasionally talking on her cell phone to an unseen friend named Harriet. We never actually saw Harriet, but her voice was heard in "Prom-ise her Anything". She was also voiced by Tress MacNeille.

In one issue of Tiny Toon Adventures magazine, a reader asked Buster and Babs in the letters column if they would show Harriet in the magazine; they responded that they were going to, but they had to give Fifi her own column (this was the first to issue to feature said column) so another reader wouldn't have any complaints. :p
 
In Hey Arnold!, Gerald has an informant/friend called Fuzzy Slippers, who basically knows all the local legends and facts about particular people. We never do see him, but he is referenced multiple times.
 
Like in The Weekenders, there is this girl by the name of Chloe Montez that everyone talks about, but they never show. Juging the way everyone talks abput her, I here she's a total basket-case!
 
Teen Titans had a few cases of this. In one episode, Robin mentions his father. Bats fly past him afterwards, but we never see Batman in the series. He did make an uncredited appearance in an issue of Teen Titans Go!, though.

I think there were more, but I can't remember what they were at the moment.

And, if you want to count this, characters in Clone Wars frequently mention people and events from the movies, books, or comics that don't appear in the show.
 
There's Skunky Beaumont from Doug, who was alluded to many times during the Nickelodeon run, then finally shown and made a character when Disney took it over.
 
On Kids Next Door when ever they need to mention a name, they always say Muffy Jenkins. I read somewhere that she was the girl that had the intertube with the flowers in operation C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R., but I don't think its true.
 
Chowder has about a large amounts of mentionings of Gazpacho's Mother.

There Was a Scene in 1 Episode of Chowder Where She Appeared, but it was only a big shadow version of her.

All I Know Is She Is Some Kind of Monster Like Elephant

:chowder::radda:
 
Of course there was the unseen, unapproachable love of Charlie Brown's life, the Little Red Haired Girl. In the comics, she was perpetually unseen by the readers, but on television, she was seen on camera for the 1st time in the prime-time special It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977), and was also given a name, Heather. She still has yet to speak.

On Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko is hopelessly in love with his (mostly) unseen neighbor, Melba Toast. In season 1's "Love Spanked", we only see Melba's arms and legs. We also see her leg getting onto a bus in a flashback in the short "Unbalanced Load". Melba was mentioned again in season 4's "Pranksters". In a Rocko's Modern Life comic book, it's mentioned that Melba works as a hand and foot model. :anime:
 
Well, it's not animation, but I would like to mention Left4Dead 2's mysterious character, "Keith", always mentioned by Ellis who says he was his best friend and tells these ridiculous stories of him and Keith's adventures whenever he gets reminded of one of the throughout the game.

Based on the stories, Keith has been blinded (by tear gas), burned, scarred, nearly drowned, poisoned himself multiple times and broke all of the bones in his body at least once in his life.
 
The oft-aluded to Randy Beeman, of Animaniacs. Like, this one time Randy Beeman's dog got wet, so he put the dog in the microwave to dry, but it exploded.

...'kay, bye.
 
In Total Drama Action, Courtney contacted and tried to contact later without success, her lawyer. Duncan also mentionned later he hired a lawyer, I don't know if it's the same guy we saw in the clip with Duncan's parents.

In the Wayside episode "Dana takes the large", when Dana and Jenny mentionned the 19th floor who didn't existed along with the class and the teacher, Miss Zarves.
 
This one doesn't apply because Finn's parents have never been mentioned in the series. No one on the show (including Finn himself) has any memories of his family.
 
We don't know that his mother is one either, since she's never been seen on the show. While Gazpacho's mother may be a beast in the figurative sense, going by Gazpacho's horror stories about her, there's no solid evidence to suggest that she's a literal monster.
 
Doctor Van Goosewing from Duckula had a assistant (named Fritz I think) which he frequently mentioned and spoke to but was never seen or said anything.

Gozer was often mentioned in The Real Ghostbusters but never actually appeared in the show.
 
In the books the nineteenth floor LITERALLY doesn't exist
only it does, but it also doesn't and it's there but you can't see because it isn't there and... It's complicated.
 
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