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Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid was the first ever Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character, debuting back in 1929 in an unaired pilot short, and in 1930 in "Sinkin' In the Bathtub", which marked two of the earliest cartoons to feature soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing. While he may have been the earliest Looney Tune, made during a time before Warner Bros. found their footing with Looney Tunes, and a character that led to innovation in the animation industry, I wouldn't consider Bosko to be a great character on his own merit. When it comes to his design, he was conceived in 1927 as a "negro boy" and maintained blackface stereotypes for a good while, even though Rudolf Ising denied that he was ever meant to be this. Hell, when Bosko's creators went over to MGM, Bosko went right back to being blackface to an even more obvious extent... Besides, most of his cartoons, with a few exceptions, were far off from the more anti-Disney style they'd go with once they entered the mid-30s with Porky Pig. But hey, that's just my opinion.
In M.U.G.E.N., Bosko plays similar to other creators by the same author.
By Crowsar
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