Characters cut in half

Started by Dave KochOctober 31, 20131 reply1,034 views

Dave KochOct 31, 2013 at 2:27 pm

Shame on me: I've joined the Tropers.

And worse, I'm thinking of launching a new trope. The tentative title is "Made Of Bologna," as cartoon characters seem to be made of a bologna-like substance, often with a bone core. Drawing all the myriad tissues and structures in a living body would be tedious, and also be too graphic for younger audiences.

An illustration of the concept: http://fav.me/d5tlmst.

So, if anyone here can think of an instance where a character gets cut in two, lengthwise or crosswise, kindly mention it here. The more examples, the better.

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saltybootNov 8, 2013 at 4:33 am1 like

When I read this, the first cartoon that came to mind was Touche, Pussy Cat. Tom gets sliced lengthwise with an axe.

In Operation Sawdust, Buzz Buzzard gets cut in half lengthwise by a runaway circular saw.

In Animaniacs' Scare Happy Slappy, Walter Wolf gets blown up by an apple bomb and gets split lenghwise. His two halves then falls over.

From A to Zzzz had Ralph Phillips imagining himself in an underwater adventure. During it, he kills a shark by having it swim into his knife. The shark splits in half.

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