The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.

Ruggles predates P. G. Wodehouse's more famous manservant-hero, Jeeves, who debuted in 1915 but didn't become a central character until the 1916 story " Leave It to Jeeves.

* DiC Entertainment's Swamp Thing animated series debuted on Fox Kids in April 1991, with Len Carlson providing the voice of the title character.

Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted three years before Mickey Mouse in the cartoon Alice Solves the Puzzle ( 1925 ).

DK debuted at the same time as Mario, and he still spars with Mario on occasion, appearing as a playable character in the Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. series, and is the primary antagonist in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games.

Before he debuted as Griff, Adam Scott actually played another character briefly in the episode ‘ Band on the Run .’

The character next appeared in Sensation Comics # 1 ( January 1942 ), and six months later, Wonder Woman # 1 debuted.

Her character was added just months after Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones debuted.

The first incarnation of the character, Dick Grayson, debuted in Detective Comics # 38 ( April 1940 ).

Following the retirement of Dick Grayson as Robin, a new version of the character, Jason Todd, debuted in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ).

The character debuted in Friz Freleng's Life With Feathers ( 1945 ).

Another, his breakout character, was the supernatural hero Deadman, who had debuted in DC's Strange Adventures # 205 ( Nov. 1967 ).

The character debuted in the serial Una ballata del mare salato ( Ballad of the Salt Sea ), one of several Pratt stories published in the first edition of the magazine Sgt. Kirk in July.

Winnie Woodpecker, who had debuted in Real Gone Woody in 1954, became a semi-regular character as Woody's primary love interest.

Jones debuted the character in the 1939 short Naughty But Mice ( which is quite similar to Disney's " The Country Cousin " itself ) though he has nearly identical traits to the hero kitten in the 1938 short The Night Watchman.

For Sesame Street's 41st season in 2010, the character was revamped as SuperGrover 2. 0, who debuted on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, flying in and crash-landing behind the chair where he was meant to sit.

Bizarro debuted in Superboy # 68 ( Oct. 1958 ), writer Otto Binder casting the character as a Frankenstein's monster pastiche that possessed all the powers of Superboy.

He was also among the actors considered for the roles of The Skipper on Gilligan's Island and Dr. Smith in the TV show Lost In Space, as well as being the visual template in the creation of Batman foe Rupert Thorne, a character who debuted at the height of All in the Familys success in Detective Comics # 469 ( published May 1976 by DC Comics ).

The first character debuted during the Golden Age in USA Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1941 ), and was reintroduced in Giant-Size Avengers # 1 ( Aug. 1974 ).

Also that year, Zenescope Entertainment debuted Sinbad in their Grimm Fairy Tales universe having him appearing as a regular ongoing character.

Artist Frank Miller collaborated with Claremont and helped to revise the character with a four-part eponymous limited series from September to December 1982 in which Wolverine's catchphrase, " I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice ," debuted.

The animated series Partridge Family 2200 A. D., which debuted in 1974, features Keith and Laurie Partridge going to a futuristic space high school called " Galaxy High ," and Laurie's friend Marion Moonglow ( a Martian ) bears a striking resemblance to the Wendy Garbo character from this series.

Described by writer Mike Conroy as " Famously one of Spider-Man's dimmest villains ", the character debuted in Amazing Spider-Man # 41-43 ( Oct .-Dec. 1966 ) as a nameless thug for hire working for an Eastern Bloc country.

Butters debuted as a background character when South Park first aired on August 13, 1997, and his role gradually increased as the series progressed, beginning with the show's sixth season ( 2002 ).

On August 13, 1997, Butters first appeared as a background character when South Park debuted on Comedy Central with the episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character ( which had also plagued Marvel once before for the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon ) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman.

The Blackheart character originates from two characters created by Carl Barks: Blackheart Beagle, a riverboat pirate from The Fantastic River Race and Grandpa Beagle, who appeared in The Money Well.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a textbook used by the main character, and Quidditch Through the Ages is a book from the library at his school.

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy was the only one to receive any improvement, having a faster character, changed items system, and 250 instead of 100 stars to collect ( other smaller things were changed as well ).

Fantastic Beasts purports to be a reproduction of a textbook owned by Harry Potter and written by magizoologist Newt Scamander, a fictional character in the Harry Potter series.

Members of the band appeared frequently amongst a cast of recurring characters that included Huck Forest, Mr. Fantastic, the Reverend Myrtle Motivation ( played by real-life Cubby chaplain Trismegista Taylor ), Rhoda " the apocryphal sister of the Virgin Mary " and Kathy Barra ( title character of the 2001 Cubby Creatures EP " Who Remembers Kathy Barra?

The Fantastic can also represent dreams and wakefulness where the character or reader hesitates as to what is reality or what is a dream.

The character Lucio in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is described in the Dramatis Personae as a ' Fantastic '.

The character returned in The Amazing Spider-Man # 18 and # 19, and was soon depicted in other comics, such as battling Hulk and the Fantastic Four.

The character first appeared in Fantastic Four # 66 ( Sept. 1967 ) ( in cocoon form ) and # 67 ( Oct. 1967 ) ( in humanoid form ), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The character first appeared in Fantastic Four # 11 ( Feb. 1963 ), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

During the course of the storyline, the character recovers and, courtesy of his abilities, mimics and defeats Klaw in turn and assists the Fantastic Four in stopping the Molecule Man.

* The character appears in the 1978 Fantastic Four episode " The Impossible Man ", voiced by Frank Welker.

The Light Fantastic briefly features a troll called Krysoprase, who was confirmed to be the same character in The Discworld Companion ( it was attributed to the fact that trolls are terrible spellers ).

Franklin Benjamin Richards is a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually as a supporting character in Fantastic Four.

From November 1994 an older version of the same character ( aged for the purposes of a story ) appeared in the Pages of Marvel's Fantastic Force until publication ceased as of April 1996.

** " Puppet Master " ( Fantastic Four episode ), an episode from the 2006 cartoon series featuring the above character

The character first appeared without a name in Fantastic Four # 13 ( Apr 1963 ), and periodically reappeared in that title.

The character first appeared in Fantastic Four # 53 ( 1966 ) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The character ultimately resurfaced again, having ( through unknown means ) successfully uploaded his sound based essence onto the Internet and was downloaded, via BitTorrent, by the Wizard to fight the Fantastic Four again as part of a new incarnation of the Frightful Four.

More a monster-story appendage than a serious attempt at creating a three-dimensional character in the manner of the upcoming Spider-Man or Fantastic Four, Doctor Droom vanished into obscurity for years when the comic was retitled and reformatted as Amazing Adult Fantasy from issues # 7-14 ( Dec. 1961-July 1962 ).

Marvel Two-In-One was an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics that featured the Fantastic Four member, the Thing, in a different team-up each issue with a different character.