List of top 50 cartoons in the world.
You don't have to be a kid to love cartoon characters, although childhood is when many of us first fell in love with them. In this golden age of animation, with entire channels devoted to cartoons, it's hard to believe that, at one time, you had to go to the movies to see your favorite characters or follow them in the newspaper. This list of the top 50 cartoon characters shines a spotlight on the ones that have withstood the test of time. 01 of 50 Bugs Bunny Warner Brothers/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images Is there any more famous rabbit in the world? Bugs Bunny has been making people laugh with his catchphrase "What's up, Doc?" since he made his debut in the 1940 Warner Brothers cartoon "Wild Hare." Whether he's poking fun at stuffy highbrow culture in the 1957 classic "What's Opera, Doc?" or outwitting a nasty knight in the Oscar-winning 1958 short "Knighty Knight, Bugs," that rascally rabbit Bug...