Toon

Toon is a contraction of "cartoon", probably popularized by the name of the ''Looney Tunes'' series of animated shorts by Warner Brothers (though the spelling is different). It became a popular way to refer to a cartoon character in the 1981 Gary K. Wolf novel ''Who Censored Roger Rabbit?'' and its film adaption ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit?''. These two works created and established the Toon Noir sub-genre, which features toons and non-toon humans living together, each playing by their own set of physics. The small sub-genre includes Disney's Bonkers and Warner Brothers' Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Freakazoid cartoon series, and more recently, the films ''Space Jam'' (1996), ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' (2000) and ''Looney Tunes: Back In Action'' (2003). Toon is often used by animation fans to distinguish chaarcters from those in Japanese anime, even if the later features comedic funny animal type characters (e.g., Doraemon). ---- ''Toon (role-playing game)'' is a Role Playing Game in which the players take the parts of cartoon characters. It is published by Steve Jackson Games. ---- The term toon occurs in the books ''Ender's Game'' and ''Ender's Shadow'' by Orson Scott Card, and is short for platoon, a section of an army in Battle School that is usually comprised of ten children. However, in Ender's army, there are five toons and one pseudo-toon, which was Julian Delphiki's. ---- "Toon" is Canada slang for their Toonie. ---- "Toon" is often used in MMORPGs to refer to a player's digital avatar. In this usage, it is a contraction of cartoon. ---- In the Geordie dialect of English language, "Toon" is used to refer to the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ("toon" being how "town" is pronounced in the local accent); the supporters of local football (soccer) team Newcastle United F.C. are nicknamed the "Toon Army". == external links == * [http://funnies.paco.to/cartoon.html Laws of Toon Physics] * [http://www.toonartspot.com Community of Cartoon Artists]

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Words begining with Toon:

Toon
Toon,_Ehime
Toona
Toonami
Toonarmy
Toonbuck_Toora
Toone,_Tennessee
Toone,_TN
Toonerville_Folks
Toonerville_Trolley
Toongabbie,_New_South_Wales
Toongabbie_railway_station,_Sydney
Toonie
Toonie
Toono
Toonotten
Toonotten
Toons
Toontown
Toontownguy
Toontownguy
Toontown_Online
Toontown_Online
Toonumbar_National_Park
Toonzone_Entertainment
Toon_(role-playing_game)
Toon_Army
Toon_Army
Toon_Disney
Toon_Hermans
Toon_shader
Toon_shader
Toon_shaders
Toon_world
Toon_Zone