![]() ![]() Love Hurts: They can shake off anything you throw at them, but if you break their hearts, they go to pieces.The "cattle call" at Maroon Cartoons is comprised of toon cows. ![]() When Eddie orders a scotch "on the rocks", the Mary Poppins toon penguin waiters put actual rocks in his drink, much to his consternation.Literal Metaphor: As is their nature, they deliberately invoke these as gags whenever they get the chance.Interspecies Romance: Several had feelings for humans (and vice versa), either with or without the Rule of Funny in force.For the Funnyz: A toon's whole purpose in life is to make people laugh - humans and fellow toons alike.Feels No Pain: They can endure any imaginable amount of pain or trauma and shake it off like nothing, also via the Rule of Funny, but it still probably hurts like crazy.In addition, the Ink-and-Paint Club has toon performers and wait staff but no toons in the audience (a reference to the Cotton Club, which was whites-only but sold itself on featuring black performers). They're cordoned off in their own huge metropolis called Toontown, which risks being demolished by the government. Fantastic Racism: Though certainly admired to some extent by them, they're not fully respected by humans and are often treated poorly (at least during the time period of this film anyway).A toon's behavior is dictated entirely by whatever entertains people, making them so exploitable that they're stuck in working-class vocations. By now, enough people would imagine they would have either conquered or maybe even wiped out humanity with that kind of potential, but they're actually restrained by a rather ludicrous weakness the Rule of Funny. Cursed with Awesome: Toons are nigh-indestructible and, at least to the "come to think of it" idea of their cartoony nature taken as serious powers, might as well or do have the powers of demigods.Cloudcuckoolander: The nature of a toon albeit to varying degrees, some being relatively sane folks with some eccentric logic, others being odd, but friendly and then some others being completely bonkers.Roger, for instance, is a cartoon rabbit who is by no means attractive by conventional human standards, but he and Jessica are happily married, and it is implied that his sense of humor makes him attractive to other women of Toontown. Blue-and-Orange Morality: Downplayed, as, overall, toon morality is more or less along the same lines as human morality, but there are a few places here certain traits are viewed differently, humor, most of all.Art Evolution: When film studios went invoked over to technicolor, all the black & white toons consequently lost their jobs, and struggled to find work elsewhere.Animate Inanimate Object: All over the place Benny the Cab, the Swinging Sword, some buildings and trees in Toontown, the Fantasia brooms, and the musical chairs at the studio to name a few.While some toons are not actors, they do tend to be involved in entertainment in one way or another. Animated Actors: In this world, cartoons are filmed in much the same way as live-action movies or television, but with toons as actors.The Ageless: It's suggested that they're practically immortal and invincible as the Dip is the only means of permanently killing them - anything less results in Amusing Injuries at worst. ![]() And the only known way to kill them for real is the dip. Most dangerously, although they take no lasting damage from both humans and fellow toons, they can do very real, permanent harm to humans. They're immortal, ageless, any injury they receive at worst normally results in Amusing Injuries or, at least, searing pain. They don't belong to this world, yet the world warps to suit their need (i.e.
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