I am so damn surprised that Jessie and James didn't make it onto this list because it felt like 35% of the comments on the community tab mentioned them
I think I remember having a little crush on James as a kid, but I always knew that him and Jessie were definitely a couple, so it didn't last very long
I was gonna say the same thing, can't say for certain but I'm pretty sure James is one of the main reasons I never felt weird about my bi-sexuality. He just rocked it always.
@@Shades-N-BraidsThey’re indeed in their 20s. I remember that there’s this fan artist Kiana Mai who always draws lovely art relating to Team Rocket, and kindly corrects the widespread misconception that they were ever teens in the series. There’s even an online article that cites one of the special promotional CDs that reveals that they’re in their 20s! :D
I first watched Avatar TLA when I was 13 and my first crush was Azula. I mean, being able to outsmart an adult leader of a secret service and overthrow a kingdom for her father at only fourteen? Slay, girl! Not to mention she nearly ended the cycle. Also the line “Don’t flatter yourself, you were never even a player” won me over. I also liked Esmeralda from Hunchback when I was in high school. Not just her look but also I felt bad for her because of the hate she was getting since she’s Romani (Gypsy; but saying Gypsy is wrongful as it implies they’re Egyptian when they’re not)
It’s such a weird feeling to have had a crush on a teenage character when I was a teenager, because now I’m an adult and that’s NOT OKAY. Every time I watch Teen Titans and Raven comes on the screen I get very complicated emotions It’s like seeing a picture of your partner when they were a mid-teen. Your brain doesn’t know how to reconcile it
broo i got this feeling when i rewatched Attack on Titan. last time i had watched it was when i was about 16 and i had a huge crush on Armin. Now im 21.... it was super weird, your example is spot on
TRUE I think how it usually goes for me though is they slide firmly into son/daughter territory for me. For example: Danny Phantom When I was a kid I was like “man, he can take a hit and dish em out, cool-ass hair cut, sharp and angular, cool deep voice” but when I rewatched it I was like “oh honey, oh baby boy, you’re only fourteen oh god. I need to adopt you right now and play video games with you and make sure you eat and sleep and take care of yourself and accept you and protect you and-“ So yeah lol, that’s mainly how I look back in my cartoon crushes I’ve aged past, with the fondness of a mother.
Omg, Im the same my first cartoon childhood crush was robin and now every time I see the show with my nephews it’s now more of a “aah the good old days” type feelings. 😊
1:53 eda’s character arc definitely gets more personal as the show progresses a notable mention being the episode “eda’s requiem” where we’re introduced to raine one of my favorite episodes by far
Dating 2D would be an absolute nightmare. You either have Noodle breathing down your neck to make sure you don't hurt him Or you have Murdoc interrupting everything so he can be the center of attention.
James from the Pokémon anime (mainly Diamond/Pearl) was my first ever fictional crush. My sapphic awakening was Princess Rosalina from Mario Galaxy. Both of these happened before I turned 10, and it almost kills me to think about how Rosalina knew I was pan long before I even knew what it was. Just like how another crush, Grell Sutcliffe from Black Butler, knew I was trans before I knew I was.
Idk if it was a crush but when I was maybe 6 years old, i sent an email to the cartoon character Johnny Bravo inviting him to have lunch with me bc I felt bad for him 😂
I have no clue what email address I actually sent this out to 🤣 this was in the early early 2000s and my mom was supervising me and thought the email was a nice idea bahaha it must’ve been like the cartoon network email address but I never got anything back lol
@@whatdoyousuppose once when i was like 8 i wrote to a postcard to harry the bigfoot from harry and the hendersons. i wanted him to come live with my family like the family in the movie. i didnt send it tho. i knew he wasnt real i was just pretending
Reminds me of the time I tried to write a letter to the desk fairy. My teacher told us that if cleaned our desks, then a diary would to give us a treat on a particular day (kinda a bit like the tooth fairy). I wrote a letter to the desk fairy, I can’t remember what I wrote but it was mostly nice things. Then, I thew my letter under a bush because I thought fairies collected letters in there and they also lived there. Turns out, there was no such thing as the tooth fairy and nobody received anything. I guess my teacher forgot about it later in the year.
I have to back the man in the yellow hat, clearly he loves the professor as well, you can't tell me all the picnics and projects at the museum aren't dates, we only see things from George's pov.
As someone who has never had a fictional crush, but does have several fictional besties, I think fictional crushes can sometimes be the funniest shit ever.
Since you talked about cartoon crushes i simply felt obligated to tell the world my first ever cartoon crush. Bill cipher from gravity falls. No not the human versions that people on the internet made. I had feelings for THE TRIANGLE... It might have been the voice or his personality that made me feel that way. Oh and another thing.. I used to have a crush on MORIARTY FROM SHERLOCK GNOMES. I honestly got no clue what the hell made me like that incredibly ugly face back then- 💀
No, no, I totally get it about Bill Cipher. There should be nothing attractive about him. He's an insane, manipulative, one eyed, triangle demon who wants to bring about the apocalypse. But man...the darker side of me is just in love with all his reality twisting anarchy. He'd probably turn me into a giant pair of screaming lips, but whatever. I love Bill.
I think my first ever childhood crush was Carmen Sandiego from the 'Where on earth is Carmen Sandiego?' animated TV show in 1994 I rarely see anyone talk about that show anymore but she was my pansexual awaking lol
my very first fictional crush was sedusa from powerpuff girls. it was not just her body and outfit, but her hair- the idea of her hair being prehensile really did things to baby tony. fast forward 21 years to 2020, where one of my most recent crushes is antonio from identity v, who ALSO has prehensile hair that can grab things. i have a problem.
Nuuuu the voice actor for Handy Manny is a Not a good person, don't remember the specifics but I do remember being a long comments thread on another of her (Athena's) videos about how he was forcefully dating 17 year olds or something along those lines.
If you do a part two please talk about like the entire cast of the Tinkerbell movies. If I would have been allowed to think I was gay as a kid you would not believe how hard I would have been simping for Terence, it pains me every day to know he isn't real. I also know the girls are all seen as very attractive as well, Vidia and Silvermist in particular
i remember my 1st cartoon crush was Emmett from The Lego Movie…. i crushed on the MFing Chris Pratt Lego 😭😭😭 but fr he’s a really sweet dude so i think i still stand by that
AHAJSJSJ Athena, I am so proud of you for putting Mr. Crocker in the F tier, a wonderful and punny fate. I think I had such a crush on him because I related to his childhood trauma and being seen as 'crazy' since I was a very ignored mentally ill child, lol. Thank you so much for featuring my comment, got such whiplash actually seeing you react to it!
Total theater kid. They could've been the snottiest character in the show, and I'd _still_ be geeking out over how they _finally_ got through to the crazy cat-lady in "Reason You Suck" speech.
Megs age is never given, but if you take the tv show as canon they are around the same age, she may be a little bit older then him tho. I assume "28" is a made up number like how the internet made up "Snow Whites Prince is 30" when he's actually 18 according to official outlines (unsure if that concept made the final film but if it did their age gab is still troubling cause the same outline says Snow is 14)
The funny thing is, that when I was younger, I didn’t take the time to really appreciate the show or its characters. Referring to TTTE by the way. I never even saw Tugs until a couple of months ago. It’s only now that I’m older, and I am taking time to appreciate the fandom and analyze the characters, that I have developed a crush on a character from this fandom. but Honestly, it makes me feel a little bit sad because I know I missed out on a lot when I was younger because I didn’t actually take the time to analyze these characters. This fandom and community has done a lot for me personally and I’m so happy to see it get the love it deserves.
I've never even seen TUGS, and I haven't seen Thomas the Tank Engine since I was legit like 4 years old but honestly..... I kinda get it??? Like his voice is really nice, he seems really friendly and sweet and personable, and his face is kinda attractive. It's just the being a boat thing that throws me off, because a person couldn't realistically have a relationship with a boat (as if anything about this is realistic, lol but you know what I'm saying I hope). If I were to see a human version of him as fanart or something I would totally be all over it lmao. That being said I totally get why someone would be into him, even if he is a boat. Hercules is hot and I'm not afraid to say it!
I feel like Chicha aka Pacha's wife from The Emperor's New Groove is INCREDIBLY slept on. She is a loving mother and wife, is also a girlboss who can take out Yzma, and is absolutely gorgeous!
Hehe… I love your hesitancy with Sally. As for McQueen… he gets better after the first half of the movie when he stops being a whiny and entitled ass. He was the first animated character I ever hated. He and Sally do have a good and functional relationship that fanfics seem to create unnecessary toxicity. McQueen got jealous when Sally thought Francesco was hot in Cars 2, but he got over that once he realized people were in danger and that his BEST FRIEND never made it back home from Japan. McQueen also introduces Francesco to Sally making her happy and being secure in their relationship. Cars 3, Sally is flipping wonderful with going to McQueen’s races more often, her showing fear and concern when he crashed, and giving him a sort of teasing, tough love pep talk. Sally: Don’t fear failure. Be afraid of not having the chance. You have the chance. Doc didn’t. And you can either take it or you can do what you been doing. Sitting. In here. For months. And by the way I love what you've done with the place I mean the monster movie lighting and the musky air freshener and don't let anyone tell you you're not working that primer because wow, I have never found you more attractive and now that i've been in here for a couple of minutes the stench i'm getting kind of used to it. I love this woman.
*sighs* both Puss in Boots and Kitty Softpaws. I'm pretty sure being attracted to both at them at the same time was my bisexual awakening. I MEAN THE ACCENTS, THE LAWLESSNESS, THE LIVING ON THE EDGE, *THE BANTER, THE SWORDFIGHTING* why am i like this. why.
My first crush was Lieutenant Fox Vixen from our hit show Squirrel & Hedgehog. I mean I get that she's supposed to be an American enemy, but just look at her! Squirrel & Hedgehog in general is a phenomenal show. Because where else will you see animals like squirrels and hedgehogs dressed up in military uniforms and armed with weapons fighting for their motherland against wolves and weasels? The show's a blursed masterpiece.
I may not have liked him like that when I watch the show just a few months ago but I think that’s a little too far. I can see why a lot of people have a crush on him.
My first crush was Xj9/Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot. Like I know, she’s a robot, but come on, She’s beautiful and I’m not the only one who liked her, I hope so anyway. 💀
Hey, I don't blame you. It is okay to love and have a crush on robots. After all, my first fictional crush ever was Elec Man from the Mega Man Classic games.
I am here to validate you. I didn't have a crush on him but always felt attached to him as a kid. I think he's very cute, I always wanted him to be my friend :'3
Not a crush but I absolutely LOVED the character Commander Ape Truly from Hero108. A much more recent one would be DJ Octavio from Splatoon, I love that guy, his designs are top tier!
I think Cala Maria was first and foremost meant to sound like "calamari", but it _also_ happens to sound like _Maria Callas,_ famous Greek-American opera singer. That second one may or may not be pure coincidence, I'm not sure, but I'm told she (Cala) has a Greek accent and a vaguely Carmen-esque operatic number in _The Cuphead Show,_ so either way I suppose I'm not the only one who noticed.
I remember my first two crushes but I don’t remember which one came first. One of them was the emo kid from Horton Hears A Who and the villain from A Goofy Movie 2. They perfectly explain my taste in fictional men,and they concern me
My first cartoon crush was Isabella but then I had a dream that I was in phineas’s body and she didn’t love me because I didn’t act like phineas so yeah I got rejected by a cartoon in a dream yeah to clarify I was 10
my first crush was perry the platypus. i was OBSESSED i had oc’s, i wrote fanfiction, i made fanart. idk he’s suave but he has a soft spot for his boys and watches rom coms. COME ON!
A note on Thomas the Tank Engine (and adjacent) shows having non-moving faces with voice over: They were developed with simple, unmoving, clear expressions to teach children how to read people's emotions through their facial expressions, thus why lots of the dialogue is characters stating their emotional state as unambiguously as possible, awkward and stiff though it may sound. But why trains you may ask? Because train fanatics are disproportionately represented by people on the spectrum so they created these anthropomorphized trains in an (debatably successful??) attempt to SPECIFICALLY target children with asperger's syndrome to pay attention someone's expression to figure out what someone is feeling.
Ace from the Gangreen Gang (Powerpuff Girls) was in Gorillaz for a little while. He was my Powerpuff Girl crush as a child. Fred from Scooby Doo was my childhood crush too. But now, as an adult, I prefer Shaggy. But that is 100% the stoner in me lol 😆
If you ever expand it to general kid’s show crushes: my very first fictional crush was Rich from the Imagination Movers...partially because my friend had a crush on Joe Jonas and I wanted to fit in
@@sublimescorpio230 I still remember parts of “What’s in Your Fridge?” 😂 “What’s in your fridge (what’s in your fridge)? What’s in your fridge (what’s in your fridge)? What’s in your fridge na-na-na, I wanna know!” “CHICKEN AND RICE IT TASTES SO NICE”
I grew up as a very repressed gay in a religious house and I think my brain locked away all my gay crushes on cartoon guys before I was able to accept myself, because I 100% know I had some but I can’t remember any of them.
12:12 Moby is the best one as he is so chaotic! Tim is a bit of a Dave but with a bit of Raechel as far as looks goes. I think he may have a bit a mix of a Chris and Jon personality. In other words I like their some what fluffy hair but think it's not fluffy enough and think they are a bit boring but are a hard worker, Somewhat kind and knows a lot of things.
I’m watching this the day after the Silent Running music video came out, and I love hearing you say that you know Murdoc would smell bad after seeing him literally destroy the forever cult with his “essence.”
6:45 yes! As a big el tigre fangirl myself, i do recommend you to rewatch el tigre!!! It's so unfairly underrated (thanks a lot, nickelodeon 😒) Also speaking of crushes, i do have a crush on manny's dad White Pantera, he is such a precious himbo, a good father and an awesome hero 🥰🥰🥰
I have weird taste in fictional men so don't even try and tell me what I already know, I'll list 3 but I could 100% think of more: Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender, probably the most understandable of the 3 I'm gonna list, he's kind, he's charming and he's reasonably handsome, the only thing most people would have issue with is his age (but not me) Grime from Amphibia, a fair bit harder to justify but while Grime starts off as a antagonist he ends up developing and becoming much more endearing and likeable soo yeah Glenn Dolphman from Inside Job, hoo boy here's the big one, is he ugly? Yes. Does he have a "coarse" personality? Yes. But you know what? I'm very much in the "I can change him" mindset and I refuse to let go
I don't tend to get crushes on cartoon characters (or characters in general from any media) but what really attracts me to a character is if I relate to them in some way or I want to steal their style? The first cartoon character I was really attracted to as a kid was Phineas from Phineas and Ferb, which I mistook for a crush for a while, but then realized I related to him (as a child of divorced parents) more than I was crushing on him.
I think people crushed on Arichibald from Veggietales cause he’s intelligent, a bit forceful in his opinions, and has a nice voice. Also, I remember that some people thought that Sombra from MLP FiM and Roughraff from Yokai Watch was hot.
Man, the biggest cartoon(although technically video game) crush I've ever had has to be piers from Pokemon I immediately fell in love with him when I got to spikemuth in swsh, and I wish the anime had him in more than one episode. I'm not as obsessed with him anymore but he's still one of my favorite characters in media as of right now
I didn’t have romantic crushes on cartoon characters I had like,friendship crushes. Like, “I want to be friends with that one” deal. I think my first of those was Invader Zim, because my undiagnosed autistic anxious elementary school brain saw the 200 year old alien who screamed too much, everyone hated and tried to get rid of, wanted to destroy everyone in his class, and I said “we’d get along so well.” Now I am a mentally stable adult who just wants to adopt this pathetic gremlin boyo.
If Athena ever plans on doing a "Ranking YOUR video game crushes" i would be getting so many concerning looks. Not from my crushes, but from my brain's crushes. My brain's crushes is absolute coo-coo clocks compared to my one anime girl crush!
Ughhh so my sisters owned some Shopkins cartoon movies and I watched it, hesitantly, and there was this villain character who was low-key so pretty. Her name is Scarletta Gateau if you wanna look her up to see what she looks like
Have you thought of doing another hobby video? I remember it was really fun to watch you try out all those different things, getting a beginner perspective into communities that are often focused around those who dedicate their lives to it makes them a bit more approachable If you do another video on that ever, I recommend "upcycling" (using things you'd throw away otherwise to make art or furniture). It just seems fun and probably cheaper than most other hobbies like that Another interesting one I can think of is collages, Itd be fun to see what you can make from ripping up weird dollar store magazines
one of my first crushes were all three main characters of road to el dorado. the girl especially but goddamn if i didn't steal looks at both of the guys too
The FIRST first vid of 2023 here ➡️ th-cam.com/video/ZIgtl5nv4j4/w-d-xo.html (paint thirst traps???? Twitter stans??? A song?!¿)
Commenting for the algorithm 🎉
My wander over yonder crush is sylvia not lord dominator SYLVIA
If you do a part 2, add Diane Foxington from The Bad Guys
My first crush was the animated version of Chris from Wild Kratts and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget that fact
My was ameoba from the wild krafts so your 1000% valid
mine was Rupert the Bear so i think we're all the same kind of crazy.
TBH Wild Kratts isn’t the worst media to have a character crush on. I though Zach Varmitech was hot (and he is tbh)
@@Deadhousep1ants you're not wrong
lmaoo i liked chris too
I am so damn surprised that Jessie and James didn't make it onto this list because it felt like 35% of the comments on the community tab mentioned them
It’s def their age
@@alayahhayala8616 Really? I thought they were in their early 20's
I think I remember having a little crush on James as a kid, but I always knew that him and Jessie were definitely a couple, so it didn't last very long
I was gonna say the same thing, can't say for certain but I'm pretty sure James is one of the main reasons I never felt weird about my bi-sexuality. He just rocked it always.
@@Shades-N-BraidsThey’re indeed in their 20s. I remember that there’s this fan artist Kiana Mai who always draws lovely art relating to Team Rocket, and kindly corrects the widespread misconception that they were ever teens in the series. There’s even an online article that cites one of the special promotional CDs that reveals that they’re in their 20s! :D
If you’re ever embarrassed by your childhood fictional crushes just remember that I had a crush on Kirby for some reason💀
I had a crush on mario... I regret it to this day
I had a crush on Mater from Cars at some point 😭😭😭
My first ever crush was metaknight from Kirby, so I feel your pain ☠
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@@crystaleyeofwoof5537 MATER??? LIKE, NO JOKE, MATER-
Mr Crocker getting F tier is the plot-twist we needed
Fun Fact: offical name of The Man with the Yellow Hat is Ted Shackleford
I did not know that
Does he have a brother named Rusty? 😂😏
While most people crush on Jessica Rabbit, I crush on her husband, Roger Rabbit.
Me, a bisexual: why not both?
@@dorothyallspice1862 I mean, don't get me wrong, she bad. In a sexy way.
Roger & Jessica are one of the all-time animated power couples!!! Both are S tier ❤️
Let me guess, it's cuz he makes you laugh?
I was on those damn weasels 😭
Obi Wan in S is absolutely where he should be. The morals. The inner struggle. Him and Satine. Yep, absolutely.
It's over, he has the high ground.
Ong
Of course Archibald Asparagus would make the list. He's British.
THANK FUCK WASNT JUST ME
@@dustbunny6381 Me too
Absolutely
I didn’t have a crush on him but….
Ya’know
YOU.
Me too manme to
I first watched Avatar TLA when I was 13 and my first crush was Azula. I mean, being able to outsmart an adult leader of a secret service and overthrow a kingdom for her father at only fourteen? Slay, girl! Not to mention she nearly ended the cycle. Also the line “Don’t flatter yourself, you were never even a player” won me over.
I also liked Esmeralda from Hunchback when I was in high school. Not just her look but also I felt bad for her because of the hate she was getting since she’s Romani (Gypsy; but saying Gypsy is wrongful as it implies they’re Egyptian when they’re not)
Wait, that's what gypsy means??
Oh my, you have _excellent_ taste. 🍷
@@msjkramey That's where the word comes from, yes, even if it _is_ a misnomer.
@@normanclatcher yeah, I just looked it up. Wild
LITERALLY Azula was my crush when I was 13 and 14
It’s such a weird feeling to have had a crush on a teenage character when I was a teenager, because now I’m an adult and that’s NOT OKAY. Every time I watch Teen Titans and Raven comes on the screen I get very complicated emotions
It’s like seeing a picture of your partner when they were a mid-teen. Your brain doesn’t know how to reconcile it
I get that way to! I also get such mixed emotions when a celebrity I have a crush on who’s like an adult plays a teen
broo i got this feeling when i rewatched Attack on Titan. last time i had watched it was when i was about 16 and i had a huge crush on Armin. Now im 21.... it was super weird, your example is spot on
TRUE
I think how it usually goes for me though is they slide firmly into son/daughter territory for me.
For example: Danny Phantom
When I was a kid I was like “man, he can take a hit and dish em out, cool-ass hair cut, sharp and angular, cool deep voice” but when I rewatched it I was like “oh honey, oh baby boy, you’re only fourteen oh god. I need to adopt you right now and play video games with you and make sure you eat and sleep and take care of yourself and accept you and protect you and-“
So yeah lol, that’s mainly how I look back in my cartoon crushes I’ve aged past, with the fondness of a mother.
Omg, Im the same my first cartoon childhood crush was robin and now every time I see the show with my nephews it’s now more of a “aah the good old days” type feelings. 😊
@@dataq1745 That describes me with Tails from Sonic the hedgehog perfectly 😂 except I never had a crush on him
1:53 eda’s character arc definitely gets more personal as the show progresses a notable mention being the episode “eda’s requiem” where we’re introduced to raine one of my favorite episodes by far
That episode made me cry soooooo hard
@@Left156 me too!!
My first cartoon crush was Aviva from wild Kratts 😭😭
Iconic. I loved her sm
I have a crush on her and Chris😭
I had a weird guy tell me I look exactly like Meg from Hercules and I have never been more flattered yet uncomfortable in my life.
Dating 2D would be an absolute nightmare. You either have Noodle breathing down your neck to make sure you don't hurt him
Or you have Murdoc interrupting everything so he can be the center of attention.
would absolutely go through that hell to date him lmao hes precious
He’d also probably cheat on you and is definitely super gross and I say this as someone who is also in love with 2D
he’d probably cheat on you too
I just don’t think many of us have the patience for his stupidity man is too slow 😭😭
Fr, the only band member I’d have the patience to tolerate being around for more than 5 seconds is Russel, but yet my brain picks 2D to crush on 😭
James from the Pokémon anime (mainly Diamond/Pearl) was my first ever fictional crush. My sapphic awakening was Princess Rosalina from Mario Galaxy. Both of these happened before I turned 10, and it almost kills me to think about how Rosalina knew I was pan long before I even knew what it was. Just like how another crush, Grell Sutcliffe from Black Butler, knew I was trans before I knew I was.
Why is this whole comment just a MOOD
My crush was Kronk 😭
oh yeah, its all coming together.
I feel like Kronk is into power play or role playing…😂
Why are you crying? You got good taste
Okie he's Handsome tho🤭😭
@ferret4111And an amazing cook. Whoever says they don’t wanna try his spinach puffs is lying
My first crush was Kida from Atlantis and I am still mad that Disney doesnt do anything with her.
Me too, babe. It’s a crime Kida has been so neglected by Disney.
that’s such a mood
Kida is amazing! My Atlantis crush is 100% Commander Rourke. What a DILF.
YES finally someone with good taste. For me Kida is second only to Esmeralda (THE most beautiful animated character ever).
Idk if it was a crush but when I was maybe 6 years old, i sent an email to the cartoon character Johnny Bravo inviting him to have lunch with me bc I felt bad for him 😂
I have no clue what email address I actually sent this out to 🤣 this was in the early early 2000s and my mom was supervising me and thought the email was a nice idea bahaha it must’ve been like the cartoon network email address but I never got anything back lol
@@whatdoyousuppose once when i was like 8 i wrote to a postcard to harry the bigfoot from harry and the hendersons. i wanted him to come live with my family like the family in the movie. i didnt send it tho. i knew he wasnt real i was just pretending
Reminds me of the time I tried to write a letter to the desk fairy. My teacher told us that if cleaned our desks, then a diary would to give us a treat on a particular day (kinda a bit like the tooth fairy). I wrote a letter to the desk fairy, I can’t remember what I wrote but it was mostly nice things. Then, I thew my letter under a bush because I thought fairies collected letters in there and they also lived there. Turns out, there was no such thing as the tooth fairy and nobody received anything. I guess my teacher forgot about it later in the year.
Omg that’s adorable
That’s nothing, when I was 7 I was at my favorite aunt’s house and I hollered out WHEN I GROW UP I’M GONNA MARRY DARKWING DUCK! XD
I have to back the man in the yellow hat, clearly he loves the professor as well, you can't tell me all the picnics and projects at the museum aren't dates, we only see things from George's pov.
As someone who has never had a fictional crush, but does have several fictional besties, I think fictional crushes can sometimes be the funniest shit ever.
Since you talked about cartoon crushes i simply felt obligated to tell the world my first ever cartoon crush.
Bill cipher from gravity falls.
No not the human versions that people on the internet made.
I had feelings for THE TRIANGLE...
It might have been the voice or his personality that made me feel that way.
Oh and another thing..
I used to have a crush on MORIARTY FROM SHERLOCK GNOMES.
I honestly got no clue what the hell made me like that incredibly ugly face back then- 💀
I thought you were talking about another Sherlock Gnomes character, then it clicked that you said MORIARTY 💀
THAT FUCKING YELLOW BASTARD?!
No, no, I totally get it about Bill Cipher. There should be nothing attractive about him. He's an insane, manipulative, one eyed, triangle demon who wants to bring about the apocalypse.
But man...the darker side of me is just in love with all his reality twisting anarchy. He'd probably turn me into a giant pair of screaming lips, but whatever. I love Bill.
Just let the fact sink in that you had a crush on an evil yellow triangle
@@kgbofficer5629 ...i've had crushes on far weirder characters...
I think my first ever childhood crush was Carmen Sandiego from the 'Where on earth is Carmen Sandiego?' animated TV show in 1994 I rarely see anyone talk about that show anymore but she was my pansexual awaking lol
lmaooo yea i totally had a whole thing for her when i was kid and tbh i still get it
I LOVE El Tigre and when you included Maria in this vid, I was so happy! I know an El Tigre lore video would go absolutely off.
I feel like we need a part 2 on this. This is such a fun video idea!
I need a whole series lol
@@AngelBlueberryTea ^
I'd probably drop some characters because she had some questionable choices lmao
@@Xx_lost_or_unheard_trackz_xXThat's kinda the point, but I will agree that some of these were weird regardless.
my gay awakening character was gwen from total drama & i had a drawing of her i traced from google on my wall.. the closet was GLASS 😭
Didn't expect to see you here, love your vids! ^o^
As a kid, I had the biggest crush on Ash from Pokémon
In a similar vein, but I had a gay crush on Koga
@@AkamaruFoxHound I see it
For me it was James
if we met when I was a little kid I would've told you Gary was better
I was more into Brock-a goofball romantic who can cook for me.
my very first fictional crush was sedusa from powerpuff girls. it was not just her body and outfit, but her hair- the idea of her hair being prehensile really did things to baby tony. fast forward 21 years to 2020, where one of my most recent crushes is antonio from identity v, who ALSO has prehensile hair that can grab things. i have a problem.
. . . . soo did you see entrapna
Bob the Builder and Handy Manny were some of my first crushes when I was five. Guess I had a thing for handymen 😂
OH MY GOSH I WASNT ALONE REGARDING BOB THE BUILDER. I don't even remember it but my mom told me and I don't know what to do about it.
Nuuuu the voice actor for Handy Manny is a Not a good person, don't remember the specifics but I do remember being a long comments thread on another of her (Athena's) videos about how he was forcefully dating 17 year olds or something along those lines.
@@sublimescorpio230 look it up and rightfully correct me if I'm lying, & If I'm being honest it's not my fault the guy may be a pervert.
If you do a part two please talk about like the entire cast of the Tinkerbell movies. If I would have been allowed to think I was gay as a kid you would not believe how hard I would have been simping for Terence, it pains me every day to know he isn't real. I also know the girls are all seen as very attractive as well, Vidia and Silvermist in particular
Yessss
VIDIA 😩😩😩
Co-signed 😫
I was down bad and probably still am
my favorite was fawn, but omg they're all fabulous
Oh my god I fr thought I was gay for a week when I was like 10 because I thought Silvermist was pretty-
i remember my 1st cartoon crush was Emmett from The Lego Movie…. i crushed on the MFing Chris Pratt Lego 😭😭😭
but fr he’s a really sweet dude so i think i still stand by that
AHAJSJSJ Athena, I am so proud of you for putting Mr. Crocker in the F tier, a wonderful and punny fate. I think I had such a crush on him because I related to his childhood trauma and being seen as 'crazy' since I was a very ignored mentally ill child, lol. Thank you so much for featuring my comment, got such whiplash actually seeing you react to it!
I love Double Trouble. I don’t have a crush on them, but they’re design is literally just amazing
Total theater kid. They could've been the snottiest character in the show, and I'd _still_ be geeking out over how they _finally_ got through to the crazy cat-lady in "Reason You Suck" speech.
I’ve found my people
Megs age is never given, but if you take the tv show as canon they are around the same age, she may be a little bit older then him tho. I assume "28" is a made up number like how the internet made up "Snow Whites Prince is 30" when he's actually 18 according to official outlines (unsure if that concept made the final film but if it did their age gab is still troubling cause the same outline says Snow is 14)
Pretty sure people said the prince was 30 because of the old fairytales.
Shout-out to that one brave soul who said Hercules from TUGS. The Thomas and TUGS fanbase will always stand by you
AMEN
The funny thing is, that when I was younger, I didn’t take the time to really appreciate the show or its characters. Referring to TTTE by the way. I never even saw Tugs until a couple of months ago. It’s only now that I’m older, and I am taking time to appreciate the fandom and analyze the characters, that I have developed a crush on a character from this fandom. but Honestly, it makes me feel a little bit sad because I know I missed out on a lot when I was younger because I didn’t actually take the time to analyze these characters.
This fandom and community has done a lot for me personally and I’m so happy to see it get the love it deserves.
I've never even seen TUGS, and I haven't seen Thomas the Tank Engine since I was legit like 4 years old but honestly..... I kinda get it??? Like his voice is really nice, he seems really friendly and sweet and personable, and his face is kinda attractive. It's just the being a boat thing that throws me off, because a person couldn't realistically have a relationship with a boat (as if anything about this is realistic, lol but you know what I'm saying I hope). If I were to see a human version of him as fanart or something I would totally be all over it lmao. That being said I totally get why someone would be into him, even if he is a boat. Hercules is hot and I'm not afraid to say it!
I feel like Chicha aka Pacha's wife from The Emperor's New Groove is INCREDIBLY slept on. She is a loving mother and wife, is also a girlboss who can take out Yzma, and is absolutely gorgeous!
Hehe… I love your hesitancy with Sally.
As for McQueen… he gets better after the first half of the movie when he stops being a whiny and entitled ass. He was the first animated character I ever hated. He and Sally do have a good and functional relationship that fanfics seem to create unnecessary toxicity.
McQueen got jealous when Sally thought Francesco was hot in Cars 2, but he got over that once he realized people were in danger and that his BEST FRIEND never made it back home from Japan. McQueen also introduces Francesco to Sally making her happy and being secure in their relationship. Cars 3, Sally is flipping wonderful with going to McQueen’s races more often, her showing fear and concern when he crashed, and giving him a sort of teasing, tough love pep talk.
Sally:
Don’t fear failure. Be afraid of not having the chance. You have the chance. Doc didn’t. And you can either take it or you can do what you been doing. Sitting. In here. For months. And by the way I love what you've done with the place I mean the monster movie lighting and the musky air freshener and don't let anyone tell you you're not working that primer because wow, I have never found you more attractive and now that i've been in here for a couple of minutes the stench i'm getting kind of used to it.
I love this woman.
So you wanna steal Sally from Lightning?
@@McQueenStan
No. I love these two as a couple.
The only reason someone would have a crush on lighting is because he’s a legitimate D-bag
@@carsfan1995 your a throuple now 😂😂😂
@@TheMOVIEMANIAC13
That’s what my sister said about Sally in Cars on the Road. She needs a break from both her boyfriends.
one of my very first childhood crushes was spongebob and my family will not let me live it down
Ykw, respect.
Nothing but respect.
Fun fact about the Man in the Yellow Hat: A deleted scene in the 2006 movie reveals that his name is Ted Shackleford.
Megamind & Roxanne Ritchi both have my heart. We certainly expose ourselves when we play this game.
*sighs* both Puss in Boots and Kitty Softpaws. I'm pretty sure being attracted to both at them at the same time was my bisexual awakening.
I MEAN THE ACCENTS, THE LAWLESSNESS, THE LIVING ON THE EDGE, *THE BANTER, THE SWORDFIGHTING*
why am i like this. why.
My first crush was Lieutenant Fox Vixen from our hit show Squirrel & Hedgehog. I mean I get that she's supposed to be an American enemy, but just look at her! Squirrel & Hedgehog in general is a phenomenal show. Because where else will you see animals like squirrels and hedgehogs dressed up in military uniforms and armed with weapons fighting for their motherland against wolves and weasels? The show's a blursed masterpiece.
have you been outside lately?
my very first fictional crush was inspector gadget
I used to watch that show
I AGREE HE LOOKS BETTER WITHOUT THE YELLOW HAT
Fun fact about obi wan, he shares the same VA as johnny test
@Call me Milo yep, it's james arnold taylor
I’d like a part two- This was funny as hell!
This video made me happy stim :]. I don’t even care if my man Hercules got put in F tier, I’m just glad he’s here.
You are so based
I may not have liked him like that when I watch the show just a few months ago but I think that’s a little too far. I can see why a lot of people have a crush on him.
My first crush was Xj9/Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot. Like I know, she’s a robot, but come on, She’s beautiful and I’m not the only one who liked her, I hope so anyway. 💀
Hey, I don't blame you. It is okay to love and have a crush on robots.
After all, my first fictional crush ever was Elec Man from the Mega Man Classic games.
its okay i had a whole crush on rodney copperbottom and like both the girls
That King Dice take is so accurate it hurts, lol. Anyone other than Wayne Brady in that role would be unfit.
i need someone to validate me for liking Wilt from fosters home for imaginary friends
There was a time where did that too.
I am here to validate you. I didn't have a crush on him but always felt attached to him as a kid. I think he's very cute, I always wanted him to be my friend :'3
I’ll validate you. He’s so bbg
Sedusa does have a nose, but only when you look at her face perfectly from the side and it’s still the tiniest nose ever
If you do a second part, Aaravos is so attractive. The voice, personality? My god
When you realize that veggie tales takes place on a sink so Archibald couldn't be taller than 7 inches
Perfect size 😋
I’m working on a Pixie Paladin character who is 10 inches tall and has had… relationships with humans and other bigger species.
I have so many animated/cartoon crushes I could be here all day listing them all
I’ve always been a sucker for Miss Spider from James and the Giant Peach - you have to listen to her voice
Oh, her voice is amazing
Not a crush but I absolutely LOVED the character Commander Ape Truly from Hero108.
A much more recent one would be DJ Octavio from Splatoon, I love that guy, his designs are top tier!
I remember Hero108! Never really watched it, though
I think Cala Maria was first and foremost meant to sound like "calamari", but it _also_ happens to sound like _Maria Callas,_ famous Greek-American opera singer. That second one may or may not be pure coincidence, I'm not sure, but I'm told she (Cala) has a Greek accent and a vaguely Carmen-esque operatic number in _The Cuphead Show,_ so either way I suppose I'm not the only one who noticed.
The closest thing I’ve had as a fictional crush was the love interest from the You Belong With Me Music Video
Tugs as a show is both beautiful and absolutely unhinged. The episode “Munitions” has 17 glorious unabridged minutes of fire, explosions, and death.
nice
Hear me out... Beast Wars Megatron. His confidence. The sultry tones of David Kaye's voice...
No need to hear you out. You're objectively right here.
I had a crush on TFA Optimus (same VA by the way)
I remember my first two crushes but I don’t remember which one came first. One of them was the emo kid from Horton Hears A Who and the villain from A Goofy Movie 2. They perfectly explain my taste in fictional men,and they concern me
Bradley Uppercrust III from Goofy Movie 2? I kinda liked him, too.
I had a crush on Meg from Hercules, Archibald Asparagus, and the man in the yellow hat💀
My first cartoon crush was Isabella but then I had a dream that I was in phineas’s body and she didn’t love me because I didn’t act like phineas so yeah I got rejected by a cartoon in a dream yeah to clarify I was 10
Thanks for putting Double Trouble in S Tier where they belong
That thing with Fuzzy Lumpkins and the bag of dirt low-key did things to me as a kid 😳
My first cartoon crush when I was a kid was Wilt from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends 😭
My biggest crush was Bowser from Super Mario. Still is, to be fair.
i mean Bowser is an icon, and a surprisingly good father. i don't blame you for having a crush on him, and honestly i'm right there with you lol.
ohhh especially in Paper Mario, i really love his personality and humor in those games!
Yeah, he’s built like a brick s**thouse! Perfect!
my first crush was perry the platypus. i was OBSESSED i had oc’s, i wrote fanfiction, i made fanart.
idk he’s suave but he has a soft spot for his boys and watches rom coms. COME ON!
Two brains from word girl, before becoming two brains was FIIIINE
A note on Thomas the Tank Engine (and adjacent) shows having non-moving faces with voice over: They were developed with simple, unmoving, clear expressions to teach children how to read people's emotions through their facial expressions, thus why lots of the dialogue is characters stating their emotional state as unambiguously as possible, awkward and stiff though it may sound.
But why trains you may ask? Because train fanatics are disproportionately represented by people on the spectrum so they created these anthropomorphized trains in an (debatably successful??) attempt to SPECIFICALLY target children with asperger's syndrome to pay attention someone's expression to figure out what someone is feeling.
Ace from the Gangreen Gang (Powerpuff Girls) was in Gorillaz for a little while. He was my Powerpuff Girl crush as a child.
Fred from Scooby Doo was my childhood crush too. But now, as an adult, I prefer Shaggy. But that is 100% the stoner in me lol 😆
I loved Ben Ravencroft from Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost
@@ravenscarlettanis13 yes! Nothing beats Tim Curry’s sexy voice.
Your PFP also made me remember loving Scarecrow from Batman 🖤
@@RazorRevenge I liked Kirk Langstrom. Well, before he became Man-Bat.
If you ever expand it to general kid’s show crushes: my very first fictional crush was Rich from the Imagination Movers...partially because my friend had a crush on Joe Jonas and I wanted to fit in
@@sublimescorpio230 I still remember parts of “What’s in Your Fridge?” 😂
“What’s in your fridge (what’s in your fridge)? What’s in your fridge (what’s in your fridge)? What’s in your fridge na-na-na, I wanna know!”
“CHICKEN AND RICE IT TASTES SO NICE”
My first cartoon crush was Bessie from The Mighty B and I'll never forgive myself for that
I grew up as a very repressed gay in a religious house and I think my brain locked away all my gay crushes on cartoon guys before I was able to accept myself, because I 100% know I had some but I can’t remember any of them.
as someone who watched cars over and over again as a kid, I'm pretty sure Sally was my first crush lmao
Not gonna lie, Special Agent Oso had me feeling oh-so different 🥵
LMAO 😭
Nah bro for me it was HIM from Powerpuff Girls
My cartoon crushes in middle school were like Sonic the Hedgehog and Donatello from 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles djgjdkd
12:12 Moby is the best one as he is so chaotic! Tim is a bit of a Dave but with a bit of Raechel as far as looks goes. I think he may have a bit a mix of a Chris and Jon personality. In other words I like their some what fluffy hair but think it's not fluffy enough and think they are a bit boring but are a hard worker, Somewhat kind and knows a lot of things.
My biggest childhood crush was the Viking Chief's daughter from one of the Asterix movies. I'm probably alone with this one
No, no. You're onto something 🤔
I’m watching this the day after the Silent Running music video came out, and I love hearing you say that you know Murdoc would smell bad after seeing him literally destroy the forever cult with his “essence.”
Mlp characters need to be in this list the next time u do this video. On that note, I had the fattest crush on Applejack for years as a kid
mine was adagio dazzle 😭
@@memethyst the dazzlings in general were my bi awakening
6:45 yes! As a big el tigre fangirl myself, i do recommend you to rewatch el tigre!!! It's so unfairly underrated (thanks a lot, nickelodeon 😒)
Also speaking of crushes, i do have a crush on manny's dad White Pantera, he is such a precious himbo, a good father and an awesome hero 🥰🥰🥰
I have weird taste in fictional men so don't even try and tell me what I already know, I'll list 3 but I could 100% think of more:
Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender, probably the most understandable of the 3 I'm gonna list, he's kind, he's charming and he's reasonably handsome, the only thing most people would have issue with is his age (but not me)
Grime from Amphibia, a fair bit harder to justify but while Grime starts off as a antagonist he ends up developing and becoming much more endearing and likeable soo yeah
Glenn Dolphman from Inside Job, hoo boy here's the big one, is he ugly? Yes. Does he have a "coarse" personality? Yes. But you know what? I'm very much in the "I can change him" mindset and I refuse to let go
My first two cartoon crushes were katara and gwen tennyson. Now I'm obsessed with their adult designs 😞
I don't tend to get crushes on cartoon characters (or characters in general from any media) but what really attracts me to a character is if I relate to them in some way or I want to steal their style? The first cartoon character I was really attracted to as a kid was Phineas from Phineas and Ferb, which I mistook for a crush for a while, but then realized I related to him (as a child of divorced parents) more than I was crushing on him.
"Steal their style" is so true. I just want to be them and take their whole identity, yet my brain's going "what's under the clothes tho?"
I think people crushed on Arichibald from Veggietales cause he’s intelligent, a bit forceful in his opinions, and has a nice voice.
Also, I remember that some people thought that Sombra from MLP FiM and Roughraff from Yokai Watch was hot.
I know I’ve said this multiple times already, but I really love ENA from ENA. 💙💛
"THAT'S A BOAT!" she says after putting a Porshe in A tier /lh
The fact that Garnet didn’t make it on to the list though 💀💀
Man, the biggest cartoon(although technically video game) crush I've ever had has to be piers from Pokemon
I immediately fell in love with him when I got to spikemuth in swsh, and I wish the anime had him in more than one episode.
I'm not as obsessed with him anymore but he's still one of my favorite characters in media as of right now
I’m so glad 2D got moved up to A tier. He is my blue hair and pronouns king and I love him so much 💕💕💕
I realized I was an adult when I watched Hilda and got a weird crush on the Mom.
I didn’t have romantic crushes on cartoon characters I had like,friendship crushes. Like, “I want to be friends with that one” deal. I think my first of those was Invader Zim, because my undiagnosed autistic anxious elementary school brain saw the 200 year old alien who screamed too much, everyone hated and tried to get rid of, wanted to destroy everyone in his class, and I said “we’d get along so well.” Now I am a mentally stable adult who just wants to adopt this pathetic gremlin boyo.
If Athena ever plans on doing a "Ranking YOUR video game crushes" i would be getting so many concerning looks. Not from my crushes, but from my brain's crushes. My brain's crushes is absolute coo-coo clocks compared to my one anime girl crush!
I’d be very upset if Mettaton from Undertale wasn’t in S tier. He’s, like, scientifically designed to be hot
There are conflicting reports of Meg's age, but it's been said multiple times she's around the same age as Herc. 18 at the most.
As someone who had an entire shelf of VeggieTales VHS’s, I DIED at the Archibald segment
Ughhh so my sisters owned some Shopkins cartoon movies and I watched it, hesitantly, and there was this villain character who was low-key so pretty. Her name is Scarletta Gateau if you wanna look her up to see what she looks like
ngl i see it
Have you thought of doing another hobby video? I remember it was really fun to watch you try out all those different things, getting a beginner perspective into communities that are often focused around those who dedicate their lives to it makes them a bit more approachable
If you do another video on that ever, I recommend "upcycling" (using things you'd throw away otherwise to make art or furniture). It just seems fun and probably cheaper than most other hobbies like that
Another interesting one I can think of is collages, Itd be fun to see what you can make from ripping up weird dollar store magazines
one of my first crushes were all three main characters of road to el dorado. the girl especially but goddamn if i didn't steal looks at both of the guys too