Summary
Felix the Cat is one of the earliest animated cartoon characters known to man. It is disputed as to whether Felix is created by Pat Sullivan or Otto Messmer, the lead animator of the series. This profile focuses on Felix from the classic shorts, which ran from 1919 when he was known as "Master Tom" until 1936 with the very short-lived Van Buren revival.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-A
Name: Felix the Cat
Origin: Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown; at least 21 due to being allowed to drink[1]
Classification: Cat
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Toon Force (Used a Chinese man's line of sight against him[2]; Unraveled a lake[3]), Thread Manipulation (Spawned a mysterious thread from his head and used it to lasso an elephant[4]), Hypnosis with "How to Be a Hypnotist" book (Hypnotized a hypnotist after cursory glancing at a How To book[5]), Regeneration (Usually High-Low, at most Mid-High; reattached his tail after a penguin ate it[6], can regrow a tail if need be[7], took off and reattached his leg to fix a limp[8], reattached his skin after having it get torn off[8], regenerated from having exploded into basically nothing[9], reformed from being split into balls[10]), Text Manipulation (Can make use of question marks that spawn out of thin air[6][11][7], spawned from Morse Code[12], KO'd a fish with an exclamation point[13]; turned numbers on a sign into a newspaper-reading setup[14]; used an exclamation point to get through a door[15]; made chop suey out of punctuation marks, Chinese text, and a line of sight[2]; turned the letters of his own laughter into chairs[16]), Body Control (Had his own tail go get a flute for him[17]; used one of his tails to plug up a hole while it still moved[7]; Can have his legs go off on their own[2]), Underwater Breathing (Type 2; can breathe and even speak underwater[11]), Stealth Mastery (Disguised himself as the owner's suitcase[18]; hid by turning himself into calligraphy[16]; disguised himself as an anchor to board a ship[19]), Enhanced Senses (Can detect a cable station from a mile away[12], is capable of splitting a single hair down the middle with precision without any experience as a barber[20]; spotted a fisherman too far away to see with the naked eye as if he were close up to him by using his tail as a telescope[21]), Radiation Manipulation (Can transmit himself through radio signals and even jump back into a disconnected/severed radio cable[12]), Hammerspace (Can stick himself into and pull himself out of a letter-sized envelope), Levitation (Can walk in air and even ignore gravity[22]), Resurrection (Can whistle sausages, which mostly contain ground animal parts, to life[21]), Surface Scaling (Paced along a tree), Self-Sustenance (survived being canned and shipped off[21]), Sound Manipulation (Grabbed an animal's roar and used it as rings to restrain the animal and Boola Boola's royal chef[7]), Water Manipulation (Used a splash of water to float down a cliff like a parachute[8]; drained a cloud of its water[14]; rode a cloud horse to catch up and subdue his plane[14]; used his own tail as a fire hose[23]), Fissionism (Had taken off and swapped the heads of a chicken and a rabbit; had split apart and switched out parts of a horse and a bicycle[24]), Metal Manipulation (Turned a knight's armor into goop that he molded into a car[15]; Built a bridge out of bullets and later used said bullet bridge to tickle a hippo[25]), Acrobatics (Can walk on a tightrope like he would on solid ground[26]; played some sail strings like a harp while standing precariously on one[19]), Subjective Reality (Was able to grab birds that came from his own head and sell them for cash[19]), Light Manipulation and Limited Sealing via Bubbles (Using his pipe, he can stick lit matches into bubbles to light up the sky. In cold environments, his bubbles can trap people[27]), Resistance to Electricity Manipulation (Survived being electrocuted so hard he got teleported to Egypt without a scratch[18]; can grab and snap a lightning bolt in half without getting himself shocked and use it to fight against lightning[14]), Smoke Manipulation (Was able to survive going though smoke without suffering any signs of suffocation and even moved some smoke aside when searching for someone[23]), and Transmutation (Reformed after having been turned into a stake by a hammer machine[28])
Attack Potency: Small Building level (Hit a ball so hard it went through a brick wall[29], fought against and KO'd a dog that was able to harm him[30]; went toe-to-toe against a Chinese man while flying a book[2]; singlehandedly defeated nine Chinese men while in a vase[2])
Speed: Subsonic with Subsonic+ reflexes (Sped his way over to another cat's house within a second[31]; ran up to a flying airplane[32]; note that give the cartoon was made in 1924, a passenger plane would've traveled no faster than 100 miles per hour (44.704 m/s) and WWI fighters were no faster than 150 miles per hour (67.056 m/s); dodged and later ran across bullets that came several meters away[21])
Lifting Strength: Class K (Pulled an elephant out of the knothole of a tree[4]; Lifted and carried a bone significantly larger than him; Twisted and even pulled out a street lamp[16], held up and rolled around an elephant as a circus act[33])
Striking Strength: Small Building level (Smacked a Chinese man so hard he went through the ground in a human-shaped hole[2])
Durability: Small Building level (Survived a brutal beatdown from a mouse[5], survived getting punched through the wall by some guy[30]; no-sold bullets[34]; got shot so hard he broke a mountain tip going through it[35], survived getting kicked all the way to Russia[36])
Stamina: Superhuman (He survived a trip to Iceland in the stomach of a fish[6]; traveled all the way to Alaska from possibly New York on a "dog sled" while waving a whip around the whole time[21])
Range: Standard Melee Range
Standard Equipment: Question marks (These can spawn in and be utilized for various purposes such as tools, vehicles, and even tail attachments)
Optional Equipment: "How to Be a Hypnotist" book, Magic Book, Pipe
Intelligence: Above Average. He was able to singlehandedly turn the tide of and win a Rat vs Cat war after recruiting some sausages sent by the butcher[37]. He also figured out the magic word (which is in Arabic) for a magic carpet after three tries[38]. In Felix Revolts, Felix led a successful rebellion against an entire town, causing it to get overrun with rats and forcing the town to legally treat cats with utmost respect.[9] Felix also possesses knowledge of the only known cure for red noses and the way to get to Boola Boola Island where it rests.[7] Felix had figured out the combination to the Boola Boola Island Royal Treasury (a safe) after only one attempt.[7] He has the accuracy to land seven spearlike icicles in the same spot.[35]
Weaknesses: Easily frightened by guns being pointed at him.
Notes: Some cartoons were not directly linked due to concerns with racism, but are cited regardless. Full playlist of Felix the Cat cartoons from this era of Felix can be found here. New York is used as a starting point as he is shown to get his paychecks from Pat Sullivan's studio in New York, as shown in Whys and Other Whys.
Notable Matchups
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References
- ↑ Whys and Other Whys (1927)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Draggin' the Dragon (1928)
- ↑ The Oily Bird (1928)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Frolics at the Circus (1920)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Felix the Hypnotist (1921)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Felix Comes Back (1922)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Felix Dopes it Out (1925)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Felix the Cat Trifles with TIme (1925)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Untitled Felix the Cat farm cartoon (1923)
- ↑ Arabiantics (1928)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 , Felix Tries for Treasure (1923)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Felix Doubles for Darwin (1924)
- ↑ Felix Brings Home the Bacon (1924)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 The Non-Stop Fright (1927)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Daze and Knights (1927)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Japanicky (1928)
- ↑ Felix Wins Out (1923)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Felix in Hollywood (1923)
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Oceantics (1930)
- ↑ Felix Pinches the Pole (1924)
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Felix Gets the Can (1925)
- ↑ Felix Full O' Fight (1924)
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 The Smoke Scream (1928)
- ↑ Felix the Cat Switches Witches (1927)
- ↑ Forty Winks (1930)
- ↑ Polly-tics (1928)
- ↑ Eskimotive (1928)
- ↑ Astronomeous (1928)
- ↑ Felix Saves the Day (1922)
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Felix the Cat Gets Revenge (1922)
- ↑ Feline Follies (1919)
- ↑ Felix Goes West (1924)
- ↑ Outdoor Indore (1928)
- ↑ Cat and the Kit (1925 MAZDA lamp commercial for General Electric)
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Felix the Cat Misses His Swiss (1926)
- ↑ Felix All Puzzled (1924)
- ↑ The Inventor (1922)
- ↑ Felix Lends a Hand (1922)
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