List of main characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
This is a list of main characters seen in the American animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Humans
- Mac — Mac is a bright eight year-old boy who lives with his mother and older brother Terrence. Mac almost always seems to know what to do when there is a problem.
- Terrence- Mac's older brother.He's always trying to beat Mac and Bloo up.
- Frances "Frankie" Foster — Frances "Frankie" Foster is Madame Foster's twenty two year-old granddaughter. She does almost every chore around the house and helps keep everything in order and, although Mr. Herriman's fixation with rules and cleanliness causes her tremendous stress, she is usually very friendly and easy-going.
- Madame Foster — Madame Foster is the founder of the Foster home. She is elderly, but she has a lot of spunk and loves to play tricks on others. Her imaginary friend is Mr. Herriman, whom she imagined when she was a child and never gave up. She is very strong for an old lady and is very adventurous.
- Goo — Goo is a friend of Mac who named herself Goo Goo Ga Ga when she was a baby because that was all she knew how to say, but her nickname (just to make things simpler) is Goo. Goo has an overactive imagination and has imagined over 750 friends. She is extremely hyperactive and talks fast. In the episode that she was first introduced, the friends in the house thought that she and Mac were in love.
Imaginary friends
- Blooregard Bloo Q. Kazoo — Blooregard, called Bloo for short, is Mac's first imaginary best friend. He's a small, wisecracking blue security blanket that Mac created when he was 3, who gets into trouble because of his mischievous mind and attention-craving ego. Bloo has illustrated, though, several times, his loyalty to Mac and his friends when the situation calls for it. In = "Frankie My Dear..." it's revealed that he is 5 years old.
- Eduardo — Eduardo is a imaginary protector friend who occasionally uses Spanish words with mediocre pronunciation. He has huge horns, purple hair, skull buckle, and grey pants. His creator, Nina Valarosa, is now a police officer on un-paid leave. He also enjoys potatoes.
- Wilt — Wilt is a tall, red imaginary friend with a stubby left arm and a crooked left eyestalk. However it is discovered that he was not always this way. His defining aspect is his sense of fair play and good sportsmanship, which he applies to every part of life he can. Wilt also is extremely courteous, to a fault (he's often willing to perform anything asked of him, even if he has to go entirely out of his way to do so) and apologizes almost constantly. His name is an obvious homage to NBA star Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt was shown to be created by Jordan Michaels, a basketball star, and an obvious homage to Michael Jordan.
- Coco — Coco is a bird-airplane-palm tree imaginary friend who can only speak or write the word "coco" at various speeds and with different emphasis. One way to understand her is to break down each "coco" into syllables and then apply them to the situation. She is also insane after possibly losing her creator but can be hurt easily.
- Mr. Herriman — Mr. Herriman is a giant rabbit created by Madame Foster herself. He is often seen wearing a tuxedo coat and a stovepipe hat as well as a monocle over his right eye (though it periodically changes eyes, depending on which way he faces). He serves as the president of the home and suffers from Obessesive Complusive Disorder given that he likes
- Cheese — Created by Mac's next-door neighbor Louise, Cheese is a lactose intolerant (though he seems to ask for milk-based products, despite his intolerance to the foods ["I like chocolate milk!"]), pale-yellow friend who debuted in "Mac Daddy." Cheese appears to be somewhat infantile, demented, and stupid, often saying incoherent phrases and breaking into sudden bouts of screaming.
"Adoption" online
In 2005, Cartoon Network Latin America website gave viewers a chance to adopt an imaginary friend online, with Bloo, Wilt, Coco, Cheese, and Eduardo as their choices. Similar to the Neopets site, the web surfers gave their friends food to eat (some good, some not so good) and games to play to keep their imaginary friend happy. At the end of the promotional period, the adopters got a certificate thanking them for participating.
In September 2005, a similar month long game was launched in the United States on Cartoon Network's official site, along with a separate link at FostersFriends.com. In addition to the four previously mentioned friends, players could adopt Berry, Uncle Pockets, Cheese, or Ivan. This updated version also used the voice actors associated with those characters, improved graphics, and increased use of Flash animation. Until December 10, 2005, those who made adoptions were able to keep an eye on them. Many of the character reactions have been incorporated into bumpers since May 29, 2006 on Cartoon Network. Through late 2006 and into 2007, this game was known as "Adopt An Imaginary Friend 2" on Cartoon Network's Latin American site.
Opposites attract?
One of the consistencies of imaginary friends is that many appear to be opposites of the kids who created them. For example, Mac is quiet and smart, whilst Bloo is loud and not too bright. Other examples are Bowling Paul, created by a champion bowler, but with no bowling skill of his own, Ivan, who has many eyes, while Stevie is blind, Red, who is kind and gentle, while Terrance is mean and a bully, Mr. Herriman, stuck up and uptight, while Madam Foster is peppy and upbeat, or Eduardo, who is cowardly, while Nina, his creator, is brave. Some fans believe this may be because imaginary friends are the personification of the hidden side of a child's personality. While this is not seen in friends like Wilt and Cheese, it can be said that Wilt's friend created him, a poor basketball player, to teach him, and Cheese's creator may be as mentally unbalanced as he is (this is not certain only because Louise has only been seen twice in the show for limited periods of time). This may mean, as Nina said in the episode "Good Wilt Hunting", that an imaginary friend is often created to help a child in need: Eduardo protected Nina and inspired her to be brave, Wilt's creator needed a basketball tutor, etc.
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