List of fictional marsupials

This List of fictional marsupials is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable marsupial characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples in literature, film, television, comics, animation, video games and legends. This list covers all marsupials including opossums, marsupial moles, bandicoots, bilbies, wombats, koalas, kangaroos, wallaroos and wallabies.

Literature

Name	Species	Work	Author	Notes
Ginger Kangaroo	Kangaroo	Spot the Dog	Eric Hill
Kidding Kangaroo	Kangaroo	Sweet Pickles	Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach and Richard Hefter
Old Man Kangaroo	Kangaroo	The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo	Rudyard Kipling	[1] [2]
Roo and his mother, Kanga	Kangaroo	Winnie-the-Pooh	A.A. Milne
Red Kangaroo	Kangaroo, Red	Dot and the Kangaroo	Ethel C. Pedley
Sour Kangaroo	Kangaroo	Horton Hears A Who!	Dr. Seuss	A cold-hearted kangaroo who destroys Horton's spirit about people on tiny specks.
Blinky Bill	Koala	Blinky Bill stories	Dorothy Wall
The Muddle-Headed Wombat	Wombat	The Muddle-Headed Wombat	Ruth Park	From the radio serial of the same name.
Penelope	Koala	Penelope	Anne Gutman

Comics

Name	Species	Work	Notes
Dave	Kangaroo	Beyond the Black Stump
Chimera Punch	Kangaroo	Tokyo Mew Mew
	Kangaroo	Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos
Bruce	Koala	Beyond the Stump
Katy	Koala	Beyond the Stump
Wombat	Wombat	Dragon Ball Z
Pogo	Opossum	Walt Kelly's comic strip of the same name
Akira Warabi/ Wallaby	Wallaby	Wallaby	Manga comic
Clive	Wombat	Beyond the Black Stump

Film, Television, and Radio

Name	Species	Work	Notes	Media
Clive	Kangaroo	Radio Roo	A puppet kangaroo character voiced by Ian Tregonning.	Television
Bopp-A-Roo	Kangaroo	Power Rangers: Ninja Storm	A robotic kangaroo monster that liked to box and speak in made up words.	Television
Fair Dinknum	Koala	Dumbo's Circus	A koala circus friends either usually dumbo	Television
Matilda	Kangaroo	Matilda	A boxing kangaroo promoted to perform by a small-time talent agent.	Film
Skippy	Kangaroo	Skippy the Bush Kangaroo	Skippy was played by at least nine different kangaroos. [3]	Film
The Muddle-Headed Wombat	Wombat	The Muddle-Headed Wombat	Ruth Park's radio serial of the same name.	Radio

Animation

Name	Species	Work	Notes
Jackie Legs	Kangaroo	Kangaroo Jack	Kangaroo Jack is mostly live-action but the kangaroos are computer-animated.
Austin	Kangaroo	The Backyardigans	A purple kangaroo.
Kip	Kangaroo	Shirt Tales	A kangaroo in a yellow shirt.
Hippety Hopper	Kangaroo	Looney Tunes	Introduced in Hop, Look and Listen (1948) and is commonly mistaken by Sylvester for an over-sized mouse.
Gracie	Kangaroo	Pop 'Im Pop!	Hippety Hopper's mother
Joey	Kangaroo	Walt Disney shorts	A cute baby kangaroo from the Disney short Daddy Duck starring Donald Duck
Joey	Kangaroo	The Penguins of Madagascar	An ill-tempered kangaroo with an Australian accent.
Rubber-neck Kango	Kangaroo	Gabby	[4]
Skippy	Kangaroo	Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown	An anthropomorphic park ranger kangaroo.
Roobear	Koala	Adventures of the Little Koala	The series' central character and protagonist. Smart, adventurous, inquisitive, and athletic, he enjoys surfing, skateboarding, and baseball.
Frank and Buster	Koala	The Koala Brothers	The titular siblings who travel by plane to help their neighbors in a sleepy town in the Australian Outback.
Constance Koala	Koala	Taz-Mania
Kwicky Koala	Koala	Hanna-Barbera's The Kwicky Koala Show	Moves at super-speed, which looks more like vanishing into thin air with an accompanying "beep" sound effect.
Kiko	Kangaroo	Terrytoons cartoons
Lenord	Koala	The Penguins of Madagascar
Reginald Koala	Koala	American Dad!
Johnny	Koala	The Outback
Nigel	Koala	The Wild
Pinky and Blinky	Koala	Noozles	Two koalas
Tolee	Koala	Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
Crash and Eddie	Opossum	Ice Age: The Meltdown	Two opossums that adopted Ellie as a young mammoth
Ozzie and Heather	Opossum	Over the Hedge	Two opossums
Ollie	Opossum	T.U.F.F. Puppy
Willy Wombat	Wombat	Taz-Mania
Raz	Procoptodon	Ice Age: Continental Drift	One of Captain Gutt's pirate crew
Rudy	Kangaroo	Horton Hears A Who! (film)	Sour Kangaroo's son who was forced to stay in her pouch
Dickie Sugarjumper	Sugar glider	My Gym Partner's a Monkey
Dizzy Devil	Tasmanian devil	Tiny Toon Adventures	A purple Tasmanian devil and a good friend of Buster Bunny.
Slam Tasmanian	Tasmanian devil	Loonatics Unleashed	Descendant of Taz.
Taz	Tasmanian devil	Taz-Mania and other Warner Bros. cartoons
Hamish	Tasmanian devil	The Outback
Thickly	Wallaby	Taz-Mania
Thomas	Koala	Cuticle Detective Inaba
Rocko	Wallaby	Rocko's Modern Life

Video games

Name	Species	Work	Notes
Crash, Coco, Crunch and others	Bandicoot	Crash Bandicoot series
Ripper Roo	Kangaroo	Crash Bandicoot	A crazy Blue Kangaroo villain.
Bungalow	Kangaroo	Fur Fighters
Matilda	Kangaroo	Sierra Championship Boxing
Pinstripe Potoroo	Potoroo	Crash Bandicoot
Ricky	Kangaroo	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Roger	Kangaroo	Tekken
Rooey	Kangaroo	Bomberman
Roo	Kangaroo	Streets of Rage 3	Called Victy in the Japanese version. Serves as mid-boss but is an unlockable character.
Sheila the Kangaroo	Kangaroo	Spyro the Dragon	A kangaroo trapped by the Sorceress. She can double jump, kick her opponents, and stomp them easily. Sheila also speaks with an Australian accent. Voiced by Edita Brychta.
Kangaroo	Kangaroo	Kangaroo
Julius	Koala	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Karlos	Koala	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Koala Kong	Koala	Crash Bandicoot	A villainous koala.
Awesome Possum	Possum	Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt	An eco-friendly Possum
Pasadena O'Possum	Opossum	Crash Tag Team Racing
Ken Ranger	Tasmanian devil	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Viscount	Tasmanian devil	Crash Boom Bang!	An extremely wealthy guy, who tricks Crash and his friends into searching for the Super Big Power Crystal for him.
Ty, Sly	Tasmanian Tiger	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Sparkster and others	Opossum	Rocket Knight series

Folklore and legends

Name	Species	Folklore of	Notes
Phantom kangaroo	Kangaroo	Germany, United Kingdom, United States, France, and Australia

Advertising mascots

Name	Species	Work	Notes
Duncan	Kangaroo	Dunk-a-roos mascot.
Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat	Wombat	Humorous unofficial Olympic mascot of the 2000 Summer Olympics created by The Dream with Roy and HG.
Hopper	Kangaroo	Dish Network mascot.
KoKo	Koala	KoKo Krunch mascot Asia.

References

1. Tim Fridtjof Flannery, Country: a continent, a scientist & a kangaroo
2. Dieter Petzold (Spring 1987), "Fantasy out of Myth and Fable", Children's Literature Association Quarterly 12 (1): 15–19, doi:10.1353/chq.0.0596
3. "Skippy: Australia's first ambassador". The Independent Weekly. 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 'Skippy was the first series, internationally, to put Australian characters and settings on screen with confidence in a way that rang bells with people around the world,' says National Film and Sound Archive historian Graham Shirley in the new documentary, Skippy: Australia's First Superstar, from Electric Pictures.
4. Jean Prescott (April 19, 1996). "Rocko And The Gang Take On Pollution". The Sun Herald. Retrieved 2010-10-09. The pudgy little wallaby star of Joe Murray's squash-and-stretch cartoon series, Rocko's Modern Life, always tries to do what's right. Sometimes he fails. Sometimes temptation turns him from the righteous path, but he tries. It's what makes him lovable, that and his wardrobe of Hawaiian shirts and his devotion to Spunky and Heffer, his dog and best friend respectively.