List of Viz comic strips
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Following is a list of recurring or notable one-off strips from the British
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Viz:
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Viz:
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- Acker Bilk – (See Jimmy HillJimmy HillJames William Thomas "Jimmy" Hill OBE is an English association football personality. His career has taken in virtually every role in football, including player, union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, analyst and match official.-Early life:Hill was born...
). - Aldridge Pryor – a pathological liar whose lies are ludicrous, such as The Nolan Sisters living in his fridge. Pryor is instantly recognizable for his retro dress sense, usually a tartan jacket with a sheepskin collar and a pair of uncomfortable-looking platform shoes.
- Alexander Graham Bell-End – a crazy inventor who continually rubs his penis on things and then tricks his assistant into touching them with his hands or mouth, at which point Alexander laughs uproariously whilst exclaiming "I TOTALLY rubbed my bell end on that!"
- Anna Reksik – a model who repeatedly vomits in order to keep her thin shape. She has attracted controversy because some people have seen her as ridiculing eating disorderEating disorderEating disorders refer to a group of conditions defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and mental health. Bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are the most common specific...
s, cocaineCocaineCocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
addiction and media pressure on women to be thin. - Afternoon tea with Mr Kipplin a one of strip about MR Kipplin inviting someone over for tea but because he ate so much grub he eventually vomits in the Toilet
- Badly Drawn Man – a poorly drawn character.
- Badly Overdrawn Boy – a parody of the pop singer Badly Drawn BoyBadly Drawn BoyDamon Gough is an English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England....
, who is seen buskingBuskingStreet performance or busking is the practice of performing in public places, for gratuities, which are generally in the form of money and edibles...
outside his local bank because he's broke. - Balsa Boy – a take on DisneyThe Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
's PinocchioPinocchioThe Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio , an...
, in which a lonely old pensionerPensionerIn common parlance, a pensioner is a person who has retired, and now collects a pension. This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom and Australia where someone of pensionable age may also be referred to as an 'old age pensioner', or OAP. In the United States, the term retiree is more...
makes a 'son' from balsaBalsaOchroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree , is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to tall. It is the source of balsa wood, a very lightweight material with many uses...
wood. The strip ends with the old man's being sent to a mental institution after burning down the house while trying to dry off Balsa Boy in front of the fire, but by the last frame he is busy working on making another "boy" out of currant buns. - Barney Brimstone's Biscuit Tin Circus
- Barry the Cat - a one-off parody of The BeanoThe BeanoThe Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
's acrobatic crimefighter Billy the CatBilly the Cat and KatieBilly the Cat was a comic strip in The Beano. The strip featured William Grange, later joined by his cousin Kathleen, alias Billy the Cat and Katie...
. Unlike his Beano equivalent, Barry is incompetent, hopelessly uncoordinated, and is immediately recognised despite his "cat-suit" disguise. The final panel shows him in hospital, suffering from multiple injuries, being told that he has acted "very foolishly". - Bart Conrad – a store detective who takes his job far too seriously.
- Baxter Basics – an extremely amoral and sexually deviant ConservativeConservative Party (UK)The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
who first appeared at around the same time as John MajorJohn MajorSir John Major, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990–1997...
's Back to BasicsBack to Basics (campaign)Back to Basics was an ill-fated attempt to relaunch the government of British Prime Minister John Major in 1993; a year after winning the general election the party's reputation was declining, not least due to the Black Wednesday economic debacle of September 1992...
campaign, and a transparent statement on the hypocrisy of politicians. - Bertie Blunt (His Parrot's A Cunt) – a boy who owns an extremely violent, foul mouthed parrot that insults everyone and encourages him to commit suicide. When the parrot kills Bertie's grandmother, who leaves them all her money, Bertie fights back by spending his inheritance on a microwave oven which he then uses to cook the parrot alive. Chris Donald, creator of Viz, has said that in the early days of the magazine he would not permit the "c word" to be used, until an outside artist (Sean Agnew) sent him this strip which he found to be so good he decided to use it anyway.
- Biffa BaconBiffa BaconBiffa Bacon is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz.- Overview :Biffa and his family—Mutha and Fatha —hail from the Tyneside region of North East England and speak in the Geordie dialect...
– (initially The Bacons); a boy and his GeordieGeordieGeordie is a regional nickname for a person from the Tyneside region of the north east of England, or the name of the English-language dialect spoken by its inhabitants...
family, all of whom are violent psychopaths. This was very much a parody of The DandyThe DandyThe Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...
's Bully Beef and ChipsBully Beef and ChipsBully Beef and Chips were fictional characters who had their own strip in the UK comic The Dandy. It started in the 1960s and originally continued until 1997. The strip told the story of two warring boys - a tall, ugly thug called Bully Beef and a softer, more cunning lad called Chips...
cartoon strip, inspired by an incident on a train witnessed by Chris Donald. Two boys began squabbling, and instead of restraining his son, the heavily-tattooed father of one boy whispered "Go on, son, I'm right behind you." - Big VernBig VernBig Vern is a comic strip in the British comic Viz, first appearing in the late eighties. It was created by Viz founder Chris Donald. It is currently, and has been for some time, drawn by Simon Thorp....
– a man who believes he's an East End gangster and is convinced the most ordinary everyday activity (a trip to the supermarket, say) is in fact a major criminal "job". Virtually every episode ends with his taking his own life or someone else's for the most trivial of reasons—no bastard copper's gonna take me alive!" "Get dahn, Ernie, he's going for his piece!" usually with a graphic depiction of him shooting himself in the head with a sawn-off shotgun. Vern's second name is Dakin, a reference to the notably violent 1971 British crime thriller Villain, whose anti-hero (played by Richard BurtonRichard BurtonRichard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role , and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid...
) is named Vic Dakin. - Billy Bottom – a literal toilet humour strip, based around a man and his attempts to defecate whilst various factors and circumstances conspire to prevent him from doing so. The first strip carried a spoof certificate of the type given to films by the BBFC, classifying the strip as 'puerile'.
- Billy Britain – a right-wing ultra-nationalist resembling Enoch PowellEnoch PowellJohn Enoch Powell, MBE was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, and soldier. He served as a Conservative Party MP and Minister of Health . He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made the controversial Rivers of Blood speech in opposition to mass immigration from...
who appeared in two very early strips. Chris Donald considers him an early prototype of Major Misunderstanding. He also made a one-off reappearance in the September 2002 issue satirising the issue of asylum seekers, where after he spends the strip making several futile attempts to round up illegal immigrants the local authorities turn his home into a detention centre for refugees. - Billy the FishBilly the FishBilly the Fish is a long-running cartoon strip in the British comic Viz that first appeared in 1983.Created by artist Chris Donald and writer Simon Thorp Billy the Fish is, like many Viz strips, a lampoon of British comics – In Billy the Fishs case, that of football-themed strips such as Roy of...
– half man, half fish, he is a star footballerFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
despite being drawn with no legs (he does apparently own a pair of football boots, but it is not clear why). He is a satire on, or homage to, the popular football comics of the 1960s and 1970s—Roy of the RoversRoy of the RoversRoy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers...
and also satirises current football incidents. Starred in a spinoff cartoon, voiced by Harry EnfieldHarry EnfieldHenry Richard "Harry" Enfield is a BAFTA-winning English comedian, actor, writer and director.-Early life:...
. According to Viz cartoonist Graham Drury, "half the readers thought [the strip] was shit, and the other half thought it was really shit." - Billy No-Mates – a miserable, antisocial teenage boy who spends most of his time alone in his dark room playing video games. If anyone disturbs him he becomes extremely irritated. He also has an obsession with masturbating, collecting large amounts of pornographic magazines and calling sex hotlines.
- Billy Quiz – a man who constantly acts like a gameshow host in everyday situations.
- Black BagBlack Bag"Black Bag - The Faithful Border Bin Liner" is an occasional character in the adult comic Viz.The original strip was a spoof of 1950s comic strips with an upper class boy and his "Lassie"-like dog, wandering around the country and generally messing up the lives of the people he meets. Instead of a...
– "The faithful border bin liner". A black bin liner which lives the exciting life of a sheepdog; a parody of The Dandy's Black BobBlack BobThis article is about the fictional dog. For other meanings see Black Bob .Black Bob was the name of a fictional Border Collie from Selkirk in Southern Scotland. Black Bob originally appeared as a text story in The Dandy in issue 280, dated 25 November 1944...
and the anthropomorphismAnthropomorphismAnthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s...
of animals. - The Bottom Inspectors – based on the ticket inspectors of the Newcastle Metro systemTyne and Wear MetroThe Tyne and Wear Metro, also known as the Metro, is a light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland. It opened in 1980 and in 2007–2008 provided 40 million public journeys on its network of nearly...
(Chris Donald in a Picture of Tyneside, BBC 4, June 2005). The Bottom Inspectors were also influenced by a single editorial comment made by John Brown, the original publisher of Viz Comic: "The only editorial comment I ever made," explains Brown, "was in the early days, when I told Chris that I thought one issue was particularly 'bottomy'. He didn't say much at the time, but The Bottom Inspectors appeared for the first time in the next issue." The Guardian The OBI is in that sense a light-hearted sardonic embodiment of editorial interference with independent creativity. - Boy Scouse – gang of delinquent schoolboys from LiverpoolLiverpoolLiverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
who earn Boy ScoutBoy ScoutA Scout is a boy or a girl, usually 11 to 18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement. Because of the large age and development span, many Scouting associations have split this age group into a junior and a senior section...
badges for mugging pensioners, spraying graffitiGraffitiGraffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
and other such antisocial activities. MP Louise EllmanLouise EllmanLouise Joyce Ellman is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside since 1997. In parliament she is Chair of the Transport Select Committee and a member of the Liaison Committee.-Early life:Ellman was born in Manchester to a British...
complained that it set a bad example and petitioned to have it banned. - Brown BottleBrown BottleBrown Bottle is a character in the British adult comic Viz.He is a parody of traditional comic superheroes, and, according to Viz creator Chris Donald in his book Rude Kids: The Inside Story Of Viz, was inspired by a man Donald knew whose personality dramatically changed whenever he drank Newcastle...
– a superhero who gets blotto on Newcastle Brown AleNewcastle Brown AleNewcastle Brown Ale is a beer produced by Heineken International. It was introduced in 1927 by Newcastle Breweries. In 2005, brewing was moved out of Newcastle upon Tyne for the first time, to Dunston on the other side of the River Tyne, and in 2010 moved entirely to Tadcaster, North Yorkshire...
to induce his "powers". He is of course totally useless. The character is based on a musician friend of Chris Donald's, one Davey Graham, who made a similar transformation under the influence of 'dog' (as Newcastle Brown Ale is known locally). - Biscuits Alive! – some biscuits that mysteriously come to life to help their boy owner out of some trivial problem.
- Busted – who, until they disbanded in 2005, occasionally appeared in strips (as well as spoof interviews and other features in the magazine) portraying them as pyromaniaPyromaniaPyromania in more extreme circumstances can be an impulse control disorder to deliberately start fires to relieve tension or for gratification or relief. The term pyromania comes from the Greek word πῦρ . Pyromania and pyromaniacs are distinct from arson, the pursuit of personal, monetary or...
cs/arsonArsonArson is the crime of intentionally or maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires...
ists who would set anything on fire "for a laugh". James BourneJames BourneJames Elliot Bourne is an English singer-songwriter and co-founder of pop bands Son of Dork and Busted. He is currently pursuing a solo career under the name Future Boy. His albums have sold over six million copies...
would always be referred to by the wrong name, making fun of his status as the "least famous" of the group. - Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large TesticlesBuster GonadBuster Gonad is the name of a cartoon character in the British comic Viz. It involves the surreal adventures of "the boy with unfeasibly large testicles". During a storm, Buster's gonads were zapped by cosmic rays which enlarged them to an enormous size. Buster's gonads are so large, in fact, that...
– a boy who somehow manages to always solve people's problems with his ridiculously large testicles. - Ben and the SpaceWalrus a one of strip centered on a fat kid named Ben who finds a SpaceWalrus and eats his Dog Bunny
- Captain Morgan and his Hammond OrganCaptain Morgan and his Hammond OrganCaptain Morgan and his Hammond Organ was a recurring Viz strip of the early 1990s featuring a pirate named Captain Morgan. Although he looked like a conventional buccaneer, Captain Morgan was always accompanied by his electronic Hammond organ...
– a pirate who sails round the CaribbeanCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
inviting people to sing along with him as he plays a Hammond organHammond organThe Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
. His character was cut when legal action was threatened over the copyright of some of the songs; according to creator Chris Donald in his book, he did not think that making the character sing royalty-free hymns or nursery rhymes would have quite the same comedic effect. - Captain Oats – a one-off strip lampooning the real Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence Oates. An explorer obsessed with pornography and masturbation, he is depicted skiing across the icy wastes, dragging a wardrobe upon which is hidden his stash of pornographic magazines. However, his efforts to masturbate are continually frustrated by the presence of his companions.
- Colin the Amiable crocodile strips centered on a small crocodile named Colin in one strip he was shot by a birdwatcher because he said hello to the man the character also appeared later on front covers of other mags such as in the he appears with Skinhead who tells the people to buy the comic or he shoots the croc!
- Christ on a Bender – a strip which depicts JesusJesusJesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
as a family man who keeps trying to escape the house to get "crucified" with his friends but is thwarted at every turn by his wife forcing him to stay home with her and look after their children. - The CriticsThe CriticsThe Critics are the main characters of a long-running cartoon of the same name in the British comic Viz. It was created and is illustrated by John Fardell.They are Natasha and Crispin Critic, two high brow art critics from London...
– pretentious and shallow high-culture critics who lampoon the perceived elitismElitismElitism is the belief or attitude that some individuals, who form an elite — a select group of people with intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously or carry the most...
of the "chattering classesChattering classesThe chattering classes is a generally derogatory term first coined by Auberon Waugh often used by pundits and political commentators to refer to a politically active, socially concerned and highly educated section of the "metropolitan middle class," especially those with political, media, and...
". - Cockney WankerCockney WankerCockney Wanker is a character from Viz based on a stereotype of the male Cockney. He is a thief, conman and charlatan who speaks in impenetrable rhyming slang and spends his days drinking, selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by on the streets and being violent to his wife...
– a swaggering, bigoted LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
er who speaks in rhyming slangCockney rhyming slangRhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal British English from the East End of London; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang...
. The character is loosely based on actor Mike ReidMike Reid (entertainer)Michael Reid was an English comedian, actor, author and occasional television presenter from Hackney in east London, who is best remembered for playing the role of Frank Butcher in EastEnders and hosting the popular children's TV show Runaround...
and broadcaster Danny BakerDanny BakerDanny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC, and Talk Radio....
. - Cop Her Knickers – an elderly woman's dealings with the gang of policemen who are constantly, and inexplicably, trying to steal her underwear.
- Copper Kettle - quoted as 'The PC who loves his PG' (PG meaning tea brand PG TipsPG TipsPG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Unilever UK. It is claimed that Britons drink 35 million cups of the tea every day.-Brand name:...
), the strip follows the life of the policeman and his futile attempts to obtain some tea—his favourite beverage—while on his beat. - Crap Jokes – a diverse range of verbal and visual puns or one-liners, usually deliberately corny or old-fashioned. The best known of the Crap Jokes are seemingly endless "Doctor, Doctor" gags, with the reader's sympathy drawn to the endlessly hapless straightman Doctor.
- Danny's District Council – a one-off story parodying General JumboGeneral JumboGeneral Jumbo was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, originally drawn by Paddy Brennan....
of The BeanoThe BeanoThe Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
, in which a young boy commands his own electronic radio-controlled district council. The tiny robotic council workers are all lazy, corrupt and incompetent and eventually switch their allegiance to the villains. The comic occasionally features other parodies of General Jumbo, including "Jimbo Jumbo's Robo JobosJehovah's WitnessesJehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual...
" and "OliverJamie OliverJames "Jamie" Trevor Oliver, MBE , sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools...
's Army". - Darren Dice - a young man who is obsessed with gambling. Sadly, he often chooses to gamble with the wrong crowd. The character is allegedly based on, and bears a remarkable resemblance to, retired Scottish footballer Darren JacksonDarren JacksonDarren Jackson is a Scottish former international footballer who played predominantly as a striker.- Career :...
. Jackson spent a couple of seasons at Newcastle United in the late 1980s and became a familiar face in bookmakers' shops in the city. - D.C. Thompson The Humourless Scottish Git – created in retaliation after D. C. Thomson & Co. LtdD. C. Thomson & Co. LtdD. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics...
threatened legal action over a variety of Viz spoofs based on characters from The BeanoThe BeanoThe Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
and The DandyThe DandyThe Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...
, including Biffa BaconBiffa BaconBiffa Bacon is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz.- Overview :Biffa and his family—Mutha and Fatha —hail from the Tyneside region of North East England and speak in the Geordie dialect...
, Black BagBlack Bag"Black Bag - The Faithful Border Bin Liner" is an occasional character in the adult comic Viz.The original strip was a spoof of 1950s comic strips with an upper class boy and his "Lassie"-like dog, wandering around the country and generally messing up the lives of the people he meets. Instead of a...
, "Roger the Lodger", "Wanker Watson", "Arsehole Kate" and many more. The title character was portrayed as a miserly Scotsman who goes about looking for breaches of copyright he can report, such as threatening to sue a woman who calls her son Dennis a "menace" in his earshot, and demanding that a pet shop owner removes an advertisement for "Three Bears for the Price of One" from the shop window. Not to be outdone, The Dandy responded by resurrecting an old strip The Jocks and the GeordiesThe Jocks and the GeordiesThe Jocks and the Geordies were fictional characters who had their own comic strip in The Dandy comic. It ran from 1975 until the early 1990s....
—representing the Scottish-based DC Thomson and Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based Viz. In the strip, the rival gangs of schoolboys are asked to produce a comic. The Jocks comic is the best, of course, but the underhand Geordies decide to copy them. Viz responded in kind by parodying Korky the CatKorky the CatKorky the Cat is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy. It first appeared in issue 1, dated 4 December 1937, and was The Dandy's original cover star. He was on the front cover of Dandy for several decades only missing out one issue, No. 294 when Keyhole Kate was on the...
as "Korky the Twat" in the next issue. - Desert Island Desk – a dialogue-free strip about an office desk which has been maroonedMarooningMarooning is the intentional leaving of someone in a remote area, such as an uninhabited island. The word appears in writing in approximately 1709, and is derived from the term maroon, a word for a fugitive slave, which could be a corruption of Spanish cimarrón, meaning a household animal who has...
on a desert islandDesert islandA desert island or uninhabited island is an island that has yet to be populated by humans. Uninhabited islands are often used in movies or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes for the idea of "paradise". Some uninhabited islands are protected as nature reserves and...
; title refers to Desert Island DiscsDesert Island DiscsDesert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942. It is the second longest-running radio programme , and is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio...
and the Topper comic story Desert Island Dick. - Desert Island TeacherDesert Island TeacherDesert Island Teacher is an occasional Viz strip created and drawn by John Fardell.The strip features a school teacher stranded on a tiny rocky islet after a shipwreck. Stuck for anything else to do, he continues to teach with the assorted wildlife as his pupils...
– a teacher stranded on a windswept rock. He has decided that "once a teacher, always a teacher", and inflicts monotonous lectures on the seagulls and molluscs. - Desperately Unfunny Dan – parody of barrel-chested Desperate DanDesperate DanDesperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy. He first appeared in its first issue, dated 4 December 1937. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. Even his beard is so tough he has to shave with a blowtorch.-History:The strip was...
who tries too hard to impress people with his superhuman feats of strength. - Doctor PooDoctor PooDoctor Poo is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz, featured in a one-off one-page strip of 25 panels that appeared in the June 1996 issue of the comic...
– a spoof of Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
depicting the title character unable to find a toilet in the whole of space-time. - Doctor Sex – "He has the power of all sex."
- Driving Mr Beckham – a spoof of BeezerBeezerThe Beezer was a British comic that ran from 21 January 1956 to 21 August 1993,...
and (later) BeanoThe BeanoThe Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
comic strip "The NumskullsThe NumskullsThe Numskulls is a comic strip in The Beano, a UK comic. The strip is about some tiny human like creatures that live inside the head of Edd Case , a boy, and control his actions.The Numskulls are:...
" in which we see the inner thought processes - or lack there of - of David BeckhamDavid BeckhamDavid Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...
. - Drunken BakersDrunken BakersThe Drunken Bakers are characters in the British adult humour magazine Viz created by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey.The two bakers run a bakery together. Their names have never been mentioned; one has sparse black hair, the other has a bulbous nose and large phiz of fair hair...
– two alcoholic bakersBakersBaker's is a supermarket chain operating primarily in the metro area of Omaha, Nebraska. It is owned by Kroger.-History:Abraham Baker opened his first grocery store in Walnut, Iowa in 1927. His first Omaha-area store opened in Bellevue, Nebraska in 1947, and his first in Omaha itself opened in 1957...
, who, because of their affliction, hardly ever manage to bake anything. - Eight AceEight AceEight Ace is a comic strip in Viz magazine that charts the exploits of the eponymous protagonist Octavius Tinsworth Federidge Ace,or Eight Ace for short...
– an alcoholic who drinks "Ace" beer (eight cans for £Pound sterlingThe pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence...
1.49) and struggles to stay on the right side of his wife and many children as a consequence. Many of the strips involve Ace being entrusted with or somehow managing to acquire exactly £Pound sterlingThe pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence...
1.49 which he inevitably uses to buy "Eight Ace". His real name has been mentioned as 'Octavius Federidge Tinsworthy Ace', the 'Federidge' in his name being derived from the now-defunct Federation Brewery which brewed 'Ace' lager. - Elton JohnElton JohnSir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
's... – a series of strips have the pop star portrayed as a petty scamster despite his enormous wealth, including Baccy Run, Dole Fiddle, Hooky Videos, Electrical Goods Scam, Bandit Beater, Lottery Syndicate Diddle (consisting of himself, BonoBonoPaul David Hewson , most commonly known by his stage name Bono , is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his...
, Phil CollinsPhil CollinsPhilip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
and Paul McCartneyPaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
), Roofing Racket, Marked Note Con, Window Cleaning Scam and Compen Con. At the end of each strip he is normally shown to have been beaten at his own game by other celebrities, mostly his "enemies", i.e. David BowieDavid BowieDavid Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
, The Bee Gees, Rod StewartRod StewartRoderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
or "the surviving members of QueenQueen (band)Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
". - Eminemis The Menace – starred in a one-off strip, a cross between EminemEminemMarshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
and Dennis the MenaceDennis the Menace (UK)Dennis the Menace, later called Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and now Dennis and Gnasher, is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic The Beano, published by D. C...
. - Eric Daft – (His IQ is less than 2) – An early Terry Fuckwitt prototype.
F - J
- Farmer PalmerFarmer PalmerFarmer Palmer is a character in the British comic, Viz.As the name suggests, Farmer Palmer is a parody of farmers in Britain. He is evidently from the West Country, judging by his accent , and in recent years has been seen as a caricature of the real-life farmer Tony Martin.Farmer Palmer is never...
– a paranoid farmer whose catch phraseCatch phraseA catchphrase is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media , as well as word of mouth...
is "Get orf moi laaaand!" - The Fat SlagsThe Fat SlagsThe Fat Slags is a comic strip appearing in the "alternative" British comic Viz. The characters made their debut in 1989. The eponymous slags are Sandra Burke and Tracey Tunstall, known to other characters as San and Tray. They are depicted as overweight, eating large amounts of food, mainly chips,...
– two enormous and tarty women living in MansfieldMansfieldMansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in the Mansfield local government district. Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area....
(San and Tray) with huge appetites for both sex and food—starred in a spinoff cartoon and a live-action movie. - Fat Sod – a one-off greedy character who steals a large pie from the windowsill of one Farmer Palmer (possibly the same character described above, despite physical dissimilarity), only to be ruthlessly shot dead and baked in a pie by Palmer, who hides inside the false pie initially stolen to do so.
- Father ChristmasFather ChristmasFather Christmas is the name used in many English-speaking countries for a figure associated with Christmas. A similar figure with the same name exists in several other countries, including France , Spain , Brazil , Portugal , Italy , Armenia , India...
– a man so obsessed with Christmas he believes that it is the festive season in the middle of August. - Fatty and Skinny, Susannah and Trinny – A strip portraying Susannah ConstantineSusannah ConstantineSusannah Caroline Constantine is an English fashion journalist, advisor, television presenter, author and designer. Her second book, entitled What Not to Wear, has won her a prestigious British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies....
and Trinny WoodallTrinny WoodallTrinny Woodall is an English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author. She was raised in a wealthy family and was privately educated...
as school bullies who ridicule classmates for their unfashionable clothes, only to end each cartoon forced to wear a horrendously uncomfortable outfit for detention or gym class. This strip prompted legal action from Woodall and Constantine themselves. - Felix and his Amazing UnderpantsFelix and his Amazing UnderpantsFelix and his Amazing Underpants is a strip in the British comic Viz.As the simple title suggests, Felix has a pair of underpants that are - so he suggests - possessed of fantastic powers...
– a boy with underpantsUnderpants-Boxer shorts:Boxer shorts, or simply boxers, have an elasticated waistband that is at or near the wearer's waist, while the leg sections are fairly loose and extend to the mid-thigh. There is usually a fly, either with or without buttons...
which he believes have amazing powers. They are in fact completely ordinary, albeit being a bizarrely large size. - Ferdinand the FoodieFerdinand the FoodieFerdinand the Foodie is a somewhat one-joke character in the British comic Viz. It was created and illustrated by John Fardell and has appeared sporadically since 2002....
– self-proclaimed culinary expert and restaurant critic. - Finbarr SaundersFinbarr SaundersFinbarr Saunders is a comic strip in the British comic magazine Viz.The strip is about a boy who is always overhearing ambiguous conversations, usually between his divorced mother and their neighbour, Mr. Gimlet, with whom she always eventually ends up having sex...
and his double entendreDouble entendreA double entendre or adianoeta is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic....
s – a boy with a good ear for homophoneHomophoneA homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose and rose , or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too. Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and homonyms...
s. The strip almost always revolves around his liaisons with his neighbour, Mr Gimlet, whose manner of speech is always interpreted by Finbarr as graphically sexual in nature (in fact, it is deliberately scripted this way), usually when Gimlet is reminiscing about everyday situations with Saunder's mother. However, at the end of each strip, Mr Gimlet and Finbarr's mother invariably do end up having sex and make blatantly obvious verbal references to their doing so, but Finbarr interprets these as being nothing untoward. Finbarr's creator, Simon Thorp, described the character as a cross between a small boy and Sid Boggle (Sid JamesSid JamesSid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...
) from Carry On Camping. - Friar Fuck – a monk with Tourette syndromeTourette syndromeTourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane...
. - Fru T. BunnFru T. BunnFru T. Bunn, The Master Baker and his Gingerbread Sex Dolls is a strip in the British adult comic Viz that has appeared in many issues since 1999. His name is a re-rendering of "fruity bun" , and in British English "fruity" describes someone who is sexually aroused; the equivalent of "horny" in...
– a "Master Baker" who makes his own sex dollSex dollA sex doll is a type of sex toy in the size and shape of a sexual partner for aid in masturbation....
s out of gingerbread and then attempts to have sex with them. - George Best is a Cinema Pest – a one-off strip featuring the late George Best prematurely disclosing the final twists of notable movies such as The Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects to incensed cinema goers.
- George BestialGeorge BestialGeorge Bestial is the only recurring character in a self-named Viz strip written by Barney Farmer and drawn by Lee Healey. Like Farmer and Healey's far more popular strip Drunken Bakers, George Bestial features typeset captions and typeset dialogue balloons, thus looking significantly different...
– a George Best lookalike that, as his name implies, enjoys committing bestiality. - Gilbert RatchetGilbert RatchetGilbert Ratchet is a character in the British comic Viz. He first appeared in 1990, created by Davey Jones. In both his appearance and the surreal humour of the strip, Gilbert is similar to Jones's other Viz character Tinribs, although the character is based more on Screwy Driver, a character that...
– a boy who can invent anything, usually to solve people's bizarre "problems" as he comes across them. However, his inventions invariably cause far more problems of their own. Usually the entire premise of the strip turns out to be a highly contrived misunderstanding. Gilbert's creator, Davey Jones, describes the character as "like (the DandyThe DandyThe Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...
's) Screwy Driver—only with more genital mutilation of vicars". - Goldfish Boy – a schoolboy who lives in a goldfish bowl.
- Grassy KnollingtonGrassy KnollingtonGrassy Knollington is a character in the British adult comic Viz.A schoolboy with huge glasses and a wild tuft of black hair, Grassy is obsessed with conspiracy theories, as is implied by his name, a play on the term "The Grassy Knoll", the alleged location of a second shooter in the Kennedy...
– schoolboy conspiracy theoristConspiracy theoryA conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...
. - Hawker Siddeley Harriet – a one-off story about a girl who can hover in mid air (in the manner of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier aircraft) thanks to her jet-powered vagina.
- Helpful Herbert A boy whose good deeds always land him in big trouble.
- Hector the collector and his metal detector strips about a boy named Hector who finds big & small things with his metal detector in one strip he found a key that according to a passing rich man opened up a key to a chest with gold inside and gave him £500 the character later returned in the 3oth edition comic
- Hugh Phemism is unable to communicate in anything other than circumlocutory language, leading to predictable misunderstandings..
- Ivan JelicalIvan JelicalIvan Jelical is a fictional Christian Fundamentalist who appears in the cult comic, Viz. As his name punningly suggests, he is an evangelical Christian who is committed to spreading the Gospel. Unfortunately for him, his pleas fall on deaf ears...
– an evangelistic fundamentalistFundamentalismFundamentalism is strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology. The term "fundamentalism" was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the...
ChristianChristianA Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
, whose proselytising is spectacularly unsuccessful. - Ivor the Skiver – his dad's a bad driver.
- Jack BlackJack Black (Viz)Jack Black is a character appearing in the adult Viz comic. The cartoons in which he appears are currently drawn by Simon Ecob.Jack is effectively a young amateur detective who along with his dog Silver seems to spend an eternal school holiday staying with his Aunt Meg in an ever changing idyllic...
– a young amateur detective who gets people arrested for minor technical transgressions. The first strip was apparently 'traced by Chris Donald', according to fellow Viz cartoonist Davey Jones, 'out of an old copy of Whizzer and ChipsWhizzer and ChipsWhizzer and Chips was a British comic magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic Buster. As with most comics of the time, Whizzer and Chips was dated one week ahead....
'. As the strip has progressed, Jack has been increasingly portrayed as a racist and a xenophobeXenophobeXenophobe may refer to:* Xenophobia, the fear of people who are different from one's self.* Xenophobe , a 1987 video game....
among other major faults. - Jellyhead – The girl with no brain. A one off superhero parody about a girl born with lime jellyGelatin dessertGelatin desserts are desserts made with sweetened and flavored gelatin. They can be made by combining plain gelatin with other ingredients or by using a premixed blend of gelatin with additives...
instead of a brainBrainThe brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few primitive invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, sea squirts and starfishes do not have one. It is located in the head, usually close to primary sensory apparatus such as vision, hearing,...
. Jellyhead spends her entire time in this story in a catatonic state, yet still manages to foil an armed robbery. The one-off strip was the work of Charlie HigsonCharlie HigsonCharles Murray Higson , more commonly known as Charlie Higson - also Switch - is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer...
. - Jimmy HillJimmy HillJames William Thomas "Jimmy" Hill OBE is an English association football personality. His career has taken in virtually every role in football, including player, union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, analyst and match official.-Early life:Hill was born...
– The bespectacled and bearded television presenter. - Joe Robinson Crusoe - a thinly disguised parody of flamboyant Newcastle pub and nightclub operator Joe Robertson.
- Johnny FartpantsJohnny FartpantsSex Maniac was arguably the first character in Viz magazine to achieve UK-wide notoriety, and was certainly on a lot of teenagers' T-shirts in the late 1980s. He is, on the face of it, an ordinary boy; except that he suffers from extreme, excessive flatulence which is not only offensive to the nose...
– a boy afflicted with extreme flatulenceFlatulenceFlatulence is the expulsion through the rectum of a mixture of gases that are byproducts of the digestion process of mammals and other animals. The medical term for the mixture of gases is flatus, informally known as a fart, or simply gas...
. Tagline: There's always a commotion in his trousers. - Jump Jet Fanny and her Hawker-Siddeley Twat – A woman who can perform VTOLVTOLA vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
(vertical take-off and landing) with her vagina.
K - O
- Kewl ChixKewl ChixKewl Chix is a recurring comic strip in the British adult humour magazine Viz.Kewl Chix stars a number of "kewl chix", i.e. teenage girls obsessed with their social life, both in real life and on the Internet...
– shallow, vacuous and materialistic teenage girls who only care about their social life. - The Lager Lads – somewhat like the Real Ale Twats, these are a group of clean cut, upstanding beer aficionados who like lager more than anything. Inevitably, barmen tell them to "piss off" or urinate in their beer. The Lads never seem to notice there's anything wrong with their drinks after this happens, both highlighting the weak flavour of lager compared to other beer and showing the Lads up to be idiots. The strips were inspired by a series of advertisements for McEwan's lager, in which - Chris Donald noted - a group of smiling, happy young men drink copious amounts of lager but never "got pissed or glassed anybody".
- Lazy Disinterested 16 Year-Old Photo Shop Girl – a teenage girl who works in a local photo supply shop. She has a very unenthusiastic attitude, and is unhelpful to her customers; preferring to chew lots of bubblegumBubblegumBubblegum is a type of elastic chewing gum, designed to be blown out of the mouth as a bubble.-History:In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum,...
and textShort message serviceShort Message Service is a text messaging service component of phone, web, or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices...
on her mobile phoneMobile phoneA mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
for hours on end. Similar strips have the 'Lazy Disinterested 16 Year-Old' working in a shoe shop and a chip shop - the latter seeing her rather talk to a friend (possibly her boyfriend) than serve anyone, and being extremely slow and deliberately disinterested when she does serve someone. Her equally unhelpful counterparts are sometimes featured, including "Miserable Butch Bus Driver Lady" and "35 - Year - Old Obsessive War Workshop Assistant" (An older man so obsessed with role-playing games that when a boy tries to buy two sets of figures from different sets, he will only sell one or the other, but not both as they 'are from different scenarios'). - Laurie DriverLaurie DriverLaurie Driver is a fictional character who occasionally appears in the cult comic, Viz. Most strips revolve around him murdering hitchikers and unsafe working practices, which this strip satirises....
– the schizophrenicSchizophreniaSchizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
long - distance driver of an articulated lorryLorry-Transport:* Lorry or truck, a large motor vehicle* Lorry, or a Mine car in USA: an open gondola with a tipping trough* Lorry , a horse-drawn low-loading trolley-In fiction:...
, who murders female hitchhikers and dumps their bodies by the roadside. - Lenny Left – a one-off strip featuring a 'radical' left-wing alternative comedian whose hackneyed 'street theatre' routines about Thatcherism arouse complete disinterest from the public. Lenny eventually sells out, and the last frame of the strip shows him doing a racist and homophobic stand-up routine in a Conservative club.
- Little Big Daddy – Schoolboy who seems to think he is 1970s wrestler Big DaddyShirley CrabtreeShirley Crabtree, Jr, better known as Big Daddy was a British professional wrestler famous for his record-breaking 64 inch chest...
. - Little Plumber – Spoof of BeanoThe BeanoThe Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
comic strip Little PlumLittle PlumLittle Plum is a fictional character in the UK comic The Beano.The eponymous hero and his friends Chiefy, Pimple and Hole-in-um-Head are members of the "Smellyfeet" American Indian tribe, who spend much of their time clashing with their rivals the "Puttyfeet" tribe. Other characters include Dr...
, in which the American IndianIndigenous peoples of the AmericasThe indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
is a jobbing plumberPlumberA plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable water, sewage, and drainage in plumbing systems. The term dates from ancient times, and is related to the Latin word for lead, "plumbum." A person engaged in fixing metaphorical "leaks" may also be...
. - Lord Shite and Nanny No-Dumps – a one-off strip about an aristocratAristocracy (class)The aristocracy are people considered to be in the highest social class in a society which has or once had a political system of Aristocracy. Aristocrats possess hereditary titles granted by a monarch, which once granted them feudal or legal privileges, or deriving, as in Ancient Greece and India,...
who wishes to defecate "like common people" and his former nannyNannyA nanny, childminder or child care provider, is an individual who provides care for one or more children in a family as a service...
who is determined to stop him. - Luvvie DarlingLuvvie DarlingLuvvie Darling is a fictional character in the British comic Viz . Darling is depicted as an exaggerated parody on old-school British Shakespearian stage actors: pompous, bombastic, profligate and pretentious in his use of literary quotes, and habitually referring to famous, real-life actors in...
– a melodramatic and self-important thespianActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
who is always out of work, principally because he is completely talentless. Presents himself as an A-list actor but is only offered very minor (and ultimately humiliating) roles. - Major MisunderstandingMajor MisunderstandingMajor Misunderstanding is a character in the British adult comic Viz.He is a retired major who dresses smartly, has a bushy walrus moustache and wears his medals on his chest for all to see; things which suggest that he is very pompous. He seems senile and certainly set in his ways, ranting against...
– an elderly, immaculately dressed reactionaryReactionaryThe term reactionary refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state in a society. The term is meant to describe one end of a political spectrum whose opposite pole is "radical". While it has not been generally considered a term of praise it has been adopted as a self-description by...
who misunderstands everybody he meets, and consequently bewilders them with his right-wing rants. - Maxwell Straker – Record Breaker. Maxwell spends most strips making increasingly futile attempts to appear in the Guinness World RecordsGuinness World RecordsGuinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
, only to end up in a bad situation where he inadvertently gets his wish (such as crashing his car while trying to break the land speed record, and falling into the world's longest coma.) He does eventually get into the Guinness Book of World Records, but only as "the world's daftest cuntCuntCunt is a vulgarism, primarily referring to the female genitalia, specifically the vulva, and including the cleft of Venus. The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane...
". - Meddlesome Ratbag – a series of strips featuring a pinch-faced, headscarf-wearing middle-aged woman (Mrs Ratbag). She takes great delight in delivering nagging lectures to complete strangers about minor breaches of social etiquette, and will go to extreme lengths to engineer a situation where she can make such a complaint. One strip began with her seeing a TV news item about the Rio de Janeiro carnival, whereupon she immediately flew to that city and booked a hotel room overlooking the carnival procession, purely in order to complain about the noise. Another strip was set during a minute's silence for a "some terrible tragedy or other" and saw her desperately (and unsuccessfully) trying to find someone who was breaking the silence, in order to remonstrate with them. She finally achieved her aim by breaking into a maternity ward and rebuking an exhausted birthing mother for the "disrespect" of failing to silence her newborn baby's cries.
- Mickey's Miniature GrandpaMickey's Miniature GrandpaMickey's Miniature Grandpa is a strip in the British adult comic Viz. Its appearance in the magazine has been sporadic; first appearing in 1989 and appearing very occasionally ever since...
– a senile old man, convinced that he's four inches tall. - Mickey's Monkey Spunk MopedMickey's Monkey Spunk MopedMickey's Monkey Spunk Moped is the moped ridden by a cartoon character who has appeared twice in the British adult comic Viz. First in 1993 and again in August 2010....
– a motorised scooter which uses simianSimianThe simians are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, , and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. Simians tend to be larger than the "lower primates" or prosimians.- Classification and evolution :The simians are split into three groups...
semenSemenSemen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...
as fuel. - Millie TantMillie TantMillicent 'Millie' Buckridge Tant is a fictional comic-strip character in the British comic, Viz.A caricature of the militant feminist, Millie thinks of herself as a champion of "Wimmin's" rights but is often self-centered and dismissive of the feelings of others. She rants, raises her fist in the...
– angry feminist who usually ends-up looking hypocritical. Inspired by the late American feminist author Andrea DworkinAndrea DworkinAndrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women....
. - The Modern ParentsThe Modern ParentsThe Modern Parents is a comic strip from the British comic Viz created by John Fardell who both writes and illustrates it. One of the most enduring and frequent strips in Viz, having appeared regularly since the early 1990s, it is a parody of 'ethically aware' middle-class parents and the new age...
– and their long-suffering children, Tarquin and Guinevere. - Morris Day: Sexual Pervert. A bespectacled, jumper-wearing middle-aged man who is obsessed with pornography, ignoring his attractive wife who waits for him in their bedroom. Kentish Town estate agents Morris Day changed their name to Day Morris around the time of the first appearance of this character.
- Mr LogicMr LogicMr Logic is a fictional character in the British comedy magazine Viz who is portrayed as being humourless, friendless and emotionless. He takes everything said to him totally literally and is entirely unaware of what is intended when a metaphorical statement is made...
– ("such is my name, therefore one may infer that this strip is in some way about me") a serious young man with no real empathy for other people. He uses highly technical and over-elaborate language rather than straightforward speech. The strip usually ends with Logic becoming the victim of his misunderstandings with others. Mr. Logic was inspired by Chris Donald's own brother, Steve, who was much later diagnosed with Asperger syndromeAsperger syndromeAsperger's syndrome that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development...
. Early versions of the character used the monikers "doodle duck dandy" and Hello World before arriving on Mr LogicMr LogicMr Logic is a fictional character in the British comedy magazine Viz who is portrayed as being humourless, friendless and emotionless. He takes everything said to him totally literally and is entirely unaware of what is intended when a metaphorical statement is made...
. - Mrs Brady the Old LadyMrs Brady the Old LadyMrs Brady - Old Lady is a character in Viz who depicts a stereotypical image of an elderly woman. She is forgetful, unattentive, bigoted and constantly talking about her ailments while also referring to her youth and how life was so much better back then. Furthermore she is rude and spiteful...
– an old woman who spends all her time exaggerating her age and complaining about young people of today and how things were different in her time. - Miss Maybe and her crazy baby strips about a fat lady called miss maybe who makes suggestions to her baby on wear to go too but the babys usual response it lets fuck a coppa
- Nobby's PilesNobby's PilesNobby's Piles is the name of a cartoon in the British comic Viz. It is one of the longest running strips, having been appearing with some regularity since the mid-1980s....
– a man with incredibly bad hemorrhoids. - Norbert ColonNorbert ColonNorbert Colon is an occasional character in the British comic, Viz.Norbert Colon debuted in 1985, an early creation of Simon Thorp, who would later become part of the Viz editorial team...
– an old miser. In one strip, Colon shared top billing with hopeless ventriloquist Boswell Boyce ('he throws his voice') and wound up in a lunatic asylum; in another strip he went on a blind date only to find the dating agency had fixed him up with his own mother ("Oh turds! It's that tightwad son of mine!"), a dead ringer for Norbert only wearing a (clearly labelled) NHSNational Health ServiceThe National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
wig. - Norman the doorman a one off strip about a violent doorman named Norman who works at the cinema
- Norman's Knob– puerile tale of Norman who thinks if he rubs his brass doorknob that he keep in his pocket that magic things will happen to him. Norman rubs his doorknob a lot at inappropriate moments and indeed things do happen for him .....in the form of arrests from irate policemen.
- Nude Motorcycle Girl – a heroic female bikerMotorcyclingMotorcycling is the act of riding a motorcycle. A variety of subcultures and lifestyles have been built up around motorcycling.-Benefits:Robert M. Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a paean celebrating motorcycling...
who solves crimes - naked except for a crash helmet, bikini pants and motorcycle boots. - One Cut Wally – a gents barber who gives all his customers exactly the same haircut even when they asked for something else.
- Only Fools and Norses – a Viking version of the BBC comedy Only Fools and HorsesOnly Fools and HorsesOnly Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...
. This idea was submitted by Dave Saunders. - Outcast of the Pony Ballet School – a parody of the comic strips in the 1970s/1980s style of teenage girl's magazine such as Pony School and BuntyBuntyBunty was a British comics anthology for girls published by D. C. Thomson & Co. from 1958 to 2001. It consisted of a collection of many small strips, typically the stories themselves being three to five pages long. As well as the weekly comic, Christmas and summer annuals were published. Bunty...
, in which Steve McFaddenSteve McFaddenSteve McFadden is an English actor, known for his role as Phil Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which he has played since1990.-Early life:...
, for no apparent reason, attends a private school for girls where all his classmates are eleven or twelve years old.
P - S
- The Parkie – An extremely angry park keeper who abuses people that seem like they are breaking park rules, when in fact they are not - he even creates his own rules just so that he can abuse them. Early strips carried satirical introductions like 'totally dodgy cartoons present...' and 'a social comment (why not?)'.
- Pathetic SharksPathetic SharksThe Pathetic Sharks is a long-running but sporadic feature of Viz. Perhaps the feature's true title is "Oh, No! It's the Pathetic Sharks" since this text typically appears in the opening panel of each instalment...
– (sometimes called the Crap Sharks). An occasional strip featuring a group of sharks, much feared, not for their ferocity, but their mind-numbingly boring and pathetic behaviour and conversational style. Instead of hunting for prey, they ask people on the beach for crisps, ice cream and toffee, except for one shark who claims to be "lactose intolerant". Generally the strip consists of some sort of shipwreck or holiday-by-the-seaside theme; the initial apprehension at the sighting of shark fins turns into abject horror: "Oh no! Crap sharks!". In one strip a group of WWII shipwreck survivors blow themselves up with a hand grenade rather than face the Crap Sharks. "Crap Sharks" is a pun on the slang expression for a professional gambler specialising in the game of craps. - Paul WhickerPaul WhickerPaul Whicker the Tall Vicar is a fictional cleric who appears in the adult Humour comic Viz. He is portrayed as a corrupt, misanthropic, violent and hypocritical character ill suited to being in the Christian Priesthood and often gambles with the church funds...
, the tall vicarVicarIn the broadest sense, a vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior . In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant...
– A deliberately crudely-drawn cartoon of a misanthropic vicar. - Playtime Fontayne – a middle aged bank manager who behaves like a primary school aged child. He made his first appearance in the comic along with his opposite "Little Old Man", a more short - lived character of a young boy who acts like the stereotype of an elderly man
- Pop Shot - Real name: Gerald. A man, who is almost always naked; sporting a stereotypical 1970s pornstar moustache, afro and chest hair, who always finds himself accidentally slipping into the language of a porn film while performing everyday activities, much to the annoyance of his wife. The strip always ends with his wife spontaneously having sex with a complete stranger, with Gerald left out of the proceedings.
- Posh Street Kids – A parody of The Bash Street Kids from The Beano. In this one off strip, these schoolkids annoy their teacher by leaving their butlers lying about in the playground, smoking high-priced Cuban cigars behind the bike shed and having food fights in the canteen with caviar, strawberries and champagne. In the end, they do get dealt with, but they craftily prevent painful canings on their backsides by slipping thick literary works of art "worth thysands of pynds" down the backs of their trousers, though the teacher seems not to notice the extra padding as he administers their punishment.
- Postman PlodPostman PlodPostman Plod is the name of a comic strip in the British comic Viz and the name of the main character. It was drawn by Graham Dury, who created many other Viz characters, including The Fat Slags....
"The Miserable Bastard" – a mean-spirited postman with a serious attitude problem and a highly questionable work ethic. - Professor Fuck – The weekly professor who answers awful questions submitted by readers.
- Professor Piehead – an inventor of amazing inventions which always go wrong and normally kill the Professor or his lab assistant, Tim (whom the Professor always addresses as Joe, for unknown reasons of his own).
- Quentin Hoylett - he has to go to the toilet finds himself saving a desperate situation - eg landing a jumbo jet after the flight crew fall unconscious - only to abandon the effort at the last moment in order to visit the lavatory.'Excuse me, I must go to the toilet'.
- Raffles, Gentleman ThugRaffles, Gentleman ThugRaffles, the Gentleman Thug is a comic strip featured in the British publication Viz, the central character of which is a 19th-century nobleman given to 'immense erudition and wanton violence'. Raffles inhabits the formal world of the Victorian gentleman, but behaves as a 21st-century hooligan,...
– a late 19th century aristocrat who behaves like a stereotypical 21st century thug. - Randall and Diana (Deceased) – a controversial one - off parody of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)Randall and Hopkirk , first transmitted during 1969-70, is a British private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk, respectively. The series was originally created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman...
with Diana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
taking the place of Hopkirk to become "the people's ghost private detective." She and Randall investigate the claims of a man who believes his wife is having an affair, only to discover that the woman is in fact selling land mines to Africa; at which Diana promises "Dead or alive, I'm determined to put a stop to it." Naturally, the strip attracted a huge number of complaints. - Rat BoyRat BoyRat Boy is a fictional character in the British adult comic Viz. He is sometimes referred to as "Doll".Rat Boy is an extreme caricature of the juvenile delinquent and criminal underclass, who lives by theft, has a strong drug habit and defies the law as openly as his youth allows...
– a pre-teen repeat offender and drug addict, characterised by a permanent "tail" of excrement protruding from his backside - his every strip involves burglary, vandalism, assault and/or substance abuse, with minimal reprisals by the police. He is the brother of Tasha SlappaTasha SlappaTasha Slappa is a character in the British adult comic Viz.The strip satirizes "chav" culture and the popular image of chav teenagers, including other fictional characters such as Vicky Pollard in Little Britain and Lauren Cooper from The Catherine Tate Show...
. - Ravy Davey Gravy – a young man who breaks out into strange dances whenever he hears any kind of repetitive everyday noises, including car alarms and road drills. His name probably derives from Wavy GravyWavy GravyWavy Gravy is an American entertainer and activist for peace, best known for his hippie appearance, personality and beliefs. His moniker...
. - Real Ale Twats – three rather pompous men who speak in an affected style and only drink real ale, even going so far as to keep extensive "reviews" of all the real ales that they have supped. Also known to criticise lager drinkers. A parody of the Campaign for Real AleCampaign for Real AleThe Campaign for Real Ale is an independent voluntary consumer organisation based in St Albans, England, whose main aims are promoting real ale, real cider and the traditional British pub...
(CAMRA). - Reverend Milo's Lino Rhino – a vicar who travels around on a rhinoceros distributing rolls of linoleum and 'converting' carpet users.
- Roswell Stiles and his intriging X files a one of strip centered on a character named Roswell who wears glasses and carries a Cabinet of X files and attempts to search for phenomenoms such as falling fish, human conbustions, crop circles, UFOs, big cats etc. but has no success such as mistaking a kitten standing next to a Bonsai tree for a big cat winding up in the seals enclosure at the zoo and many others and when he attempts to fake a ufo sighting by throwing an old car wheel trim into the air it smashes another mans green house who shoves the filing cabinet up his arse.
- Reverend Ramsden's Ringpiece Cathedral – a vicar with a life-sized church up his bottom.
- Robot Nun (She's Got Tommy-Gun Tits!) - Bursts into a service being held in a church in outer space, and massacres the congregation with automatic weapons firing through her nipples.
- Rod Hull and Emo - A one-off strip parodying Rod Hull and Emu, in which Emu becomes Emo, a stereotypically maudlin emo fan.
- Roger IrrelevantRoger IrrelevantRoger Irrelevant is a character from the British comic Viz, created by Davey Jones. During the 1980s he starred in short, half-page or three-framed strips which later evolved to full-page spreads by the 1990s...
("He's Completely Hatstand") – a young man with a very strange mental problem where he continually produces irrelevant and surreal streams of language and behaviour. - Roger MellieRoger MellieRoger Mellie is a fictional character featured in Viz magazine. His catchphrase is "Hello, good evening and bollocks!", satirising David Frost's catchphrase "Hello, good evening, and welcome". The character is foul-mouthed, an obnoxious misogynist who manages to maintain a career as a television...
("The Man on the Telly") – a foul-mouthed and violent TV presenter, whose activities satirise real TV shows and incidents. Starred in a spinoff cartoon, voiced by Peter CookPeter CookPeter Edward Cook was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath," although Cook's...
. - Roger the Lodger a parody of the Beano character Roger the dodger
- The adventures of Rolf Harris the cat A one-off strip which features a Scottish Rolf Harris in feline form attempting to deliver a package and avoid water based hazards only to find the package was a divers watch
- Rotating Chin Men A gang of flying villains with jetpacks whose intention is to spoil Queen Elizabeth II's coronation by spurting semen onto her via a pump squeeze mechanism linked to their revolving chins. Paraphrased quote by the Archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
: 'I can't crown a queen with all jizzJizzJizz can mean:*Jizz , the immediately recognisable characteristics of a bird. Sometimes extended to refer to animals and plants.*An alternative way of writing jism, a slang term for semen or ejaculation.It is also referred to by:...
matted in her hair, it would be most unconstitutional'. The villains are foiled by the two child heroes who hook one of the villain's rotating chin with the archbishop's crook, causing the mechanism to overheat and 'dribble jissolm all down his chin'. - Roy Schneider - Joy Rider A 14 year-old perpetual truant yob whose attempts to cause trouble in his community usually end up with him looking somewhat ridiculous. For example, he twocTWOCTWOC is an acronym standing for Taking Without Owner's Consent. Synonyms used by police in the UK include UTMV: Unlawful Taking of a Motor Vehicle, and TADA or TDA: Taking and Driving Away...
s a car, looks in the rear view mirror, and expresses delight that the police are chasing him already; in the next frame it is revealed that both Roy's car and the "pursuing" police car are models on a fairground ride, from which Roy is summarily ejected by the operator. - Rude Kid – one frame strip where a young boy answers the most polite request with a rude word or phrase. This comic actually predates Viz, featuring in some of the proto-Viz fanzines created by Donald in the 1970s
- Sam, Son of Man – a young boy who believes himself to be the second (or third) coming and moves in a mysterious way
- Scottie Trotter and his Tottie Allotment – A boy with a portable miniature garden with several scantily-clad women on it.
- Sheridan Poorly – A man convinced that he is terminally ill, even though he is constantly being told by doctors that there is nothing wrong with him.
- Sherlock Homeless – A homeless parody of Sherlock HolmesSherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
. who solves crimes for the reward money - which is inevitably spent on Tennents Super. - Sherlock Homo – an outrageously gay version of Sherlock HolmesSherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
. Despite evidence to the contrary evidence, he has well-built men stopped and searched using a ruse to investigate their backsides sighing "some day my prince will come". - Shirker Bee – A worker bee within a hive who is unusually lazy, feigning illness and quoting bizarre contractual regulations to get out of doing his job.
- Sid the SexistSid the SexistSid the Sexist is a character from the English comic book Viz. The strip was created and mostly drawn by Simon Donald until he left the magazine in 2003, when Paul Palmer took over as artist...
– a young man with no sexual experience who boasts of his success with women. His distinct lack of tact or any social graces do not help him in his quest to 'pull' women. Starred in a spinoff cartoon - Simon Lotion, Time and MotionTime and motion studyA time and motion study is a business efficiency technique combining the Time Study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the Motion Study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth . It is a major part of scientific management...
man – a hopeless male parent who insists his family reorganise every mundane household and leisure activity to fit his "professional", pedantic view of how the world should be run more efficiently. This always results in the complete failure of the proposed activity to meet any kind of performance or time constraint, with pathetic yet humorous consequences. - Simon's Snowman – Occasional strip which featured in some Christmas issues during the 1990s. A parody of The SnowmanThe SnowmanThe Snowman is a children's book by English author Raymond Briggs, published in 1978. In 1982, this book was turned into a 26-minute animated movie by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling Channel 4. It was first shown on Channel 4 late on Christmas Eve in 1982 and was an immediate success. The film was...
, in which a violent, foul-mouthed snowman takes a young boy on a drinking and gambling spree - Sir Edmund Hilarity – a mountaineer who continually endangers the lives of his team by playing inappropriate practical jokes on them during an expedition to climb Everest. The team die when a sherpa unwittingly lights up one of Hilarity's joke exploding cigars, causing a fatal avalanche. Hilarity's camera is discovered fifty years later by modern day climbers, who develop the film to discover that Hilarity did not take any pictures of the trip, and instead used the entire roll of film to take pictures of himself at Base Camp with his teammates' toothbrushes inserted in his bottom.
- Sir Fred Goodwin the Fat Cat – the former governor of the Royal Bank of ScotlandRoyal Bank of ScotlandThe Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...
Sir Fred Goodwin parodied as an overweight feline forced to catch mice in order to earn his pension. - Skinheed – An early comic strip showing a young man with social problems turning into an inhuman monster.
- Spawny Get – a boy whose initial apparent bad luck turns into incredible fortune
- Specky Twat – a boy who suffers bad vision, and wears thick glasses. He often mistakes things for something else.
- Spoilt Bastard – a fat, ungrateful and vicious-tongued boy who manipulates his weak-willed mother into satisfying his hollow and selfish desires, usually with serious health-threatening consequences for her. The character is similiar to a comic strip which appeared in Monster FunMonster FunMonster Fun was a British comic for young children . It ran for 72 issues from 14 June 1975 to 30 October 1976, when it merged with Buster to form Buster and Monster Fun. Its strips included Mummy's Boy and X-Ray Specs. Artists included Robert Nixon, Tom Williams and Trevor Metcalfe...
and later BusterBuster (comic)Buster was a long-running British comic which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the former increasingly replaced the latter...
called Mummy's Boy. - Stag Knight – a one-off strip of a buck's night/stag night in the time of King Arthur/Camelot. Strip shows, late night kebab shops and a barroom brawl is presented in Ye Olde English.
- Stan the Statistician – a nerd who tells everybody the probability of every event.
- Student GrantStudent GrantStudent Grant is a cartoon strip in the British comic Viz. It first appeared in 1992 and featured regularly for the rest of the 1990s. The strip, created by Simon Thorp, features a University student named Grant Wankshaft, a student at the fictional Spunkbridge University. Grant does little or no...
– an upper middle-class student at FulchesterFulchesterFulchester is a fictitious town in North East England where most of the comic strips in the humour-based Viz comic are set. From the accents used and the cultural references, it is presumed that Fulchester is either close to, or based upon, Newcastle upon Tyne. The name was taken from the British...
(or sometimes Spunkbridge) University, who is determined to be fashionably "right on" and a left-wing radical, though when things go wrong, it's always his "bourgeois" rich parents that bail him out. - Suicidal SydSuicidal SydSuicidal Syd is a character in the British adult comic Viz. Strips featuring Syd are usually drawn by Lew Stringer, an artist and regular contributor to the comic....
– a manically depressed young man who makes various unsuccessful attempts to kill himself. He usually cheers up near end of the strip, only to die in a freak accident immediately afterwards. - S.W.A.N.T – a crack paramilitary police team with "Special Weapons and No Tactics" which parodies American SWATSWATA SWAT team is an elite tactical unit in various national law enforcement departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers...
teams
T - Z
- Tasha SlappaTasha SlappaTasha Slappa is a character in the British adult comic Viz.The strip satirizes "chav" culture and the popular image of chav teenagers, including other fictional characters such as Vicky Pollard in Little Britain and Lauren Cooper from The Catherine Tate Show...
– originally Kappa Slappa, after the sportswear brand, but changed on "legal advice", a teenage girl who follows a stereotypical "chavChavA chav is a term that is used in the United Kingdom to describe a stereotype of teenagers and young adults from an underclass background.-Etymology:...
" lifestyle, and lives at home with her irresponsible mother and countless siblings, all from different (and unknown) fathers. Her main pursuits involve maximising her income from the state benefits system (for her own use) and shoplifting. - Tom and Gerry a one off strip that's a parody of Tom & jerry a classic children's cartoon but the only real difference is Jerrys name spelt with a G instead of a J the strip is centered on Tom finally catching Jerry whose reply is Got the Basstard
- Thieving Gypsy Bastards – Infamous one-off strip about Irish travellers, "Mc O'Dougles", who descend on a middle-class front garden, steal and vandalise everything in sight, with the approval of the local council (even taking a pet dog's testicles!) before moving on. On the next page there was a three-panel "compensatory" strip entitled The Nice, Honest Gypsies. It involved an old Romany woman giving change back to a home owner who had been overcharged for some clothes pegs. An end note adding that in next month's strip The Good Honest Gypsies would be renewing the car tax on their big American car. Both strips caused uproar from race relation groups in the UK. The publishers were accused of promoting prejudice and hatred against an ethnic minority. Following involvement by the UK's Commission for Racial EqualityCommission for Racial EqualityThe Commission for Racial Equality was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom which aimed to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality. Its work has been merged into the new Equality and Human Rights Commission.-History:...
, the British Romany Council and even receiving a reprimand from the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, the next issue of Viz contained a 'cut-out-and-keep' apology; subtitled "what every gypsy's been waiting for!" - Telly Evangelist – A Roman Catholic priest, Father O'Brien, who is addicted to television. Whenever he isn't watching television he is talking about it (often doing both at the same time).
- Terry Fuckwitt – "The unintelligent cartoon character"; an extremely dim-witted boy.
- Tex Wade – "Frontier Accountant"; cowboy desperado and financial auditor who shoots dead anyone who crosses his path (and fails to balance their books properly).
- The Human League (In Outer Space) – a strip featuring the 1980s pop bandThe Human LeagueThe Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...
and their adventures in outer space. - The ThingsThe ThingsThe Things are recurring characters in the British adult humour magazine Viz.The Things are some kind of troll-like creatures with long fur, fangs and narrow tails with arrowhead shaped tips...
– Bizarre aliens that were contrived into situations whereby the human participants could say things like "These things... (situation)..." - Thoughtful Bully – A high school student who can present a good case to his teacher why he should be allowed to bully his classmates.
- The Mcbrowntrouts – strip centred around a Scottish family and their toilet humour antics. A parody of the real comic strip The BroonsThe BroonsThe Broons is a comic strip in Scots published in the weekly Scottish newspaper, The Sunday Post. It features the Broon family, who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street, in the fictional Scottish town of Auchentogle or Auchenshoogle . They are also shown as living on Glebe Street...
. - The Vibrating Bum-faced Goats – an influential one-off strip where two schoolchildren from the city go to stay with their grandfather in the countryside. The grandfather owns a herd of petrol-driven mechanical goats with buttocks in place of faces- referred to in the strip as robotic rump-resembling ruminants.
- Timothy Potter - Trainspotter – Went round taking video of trains with his camcorder, in particular British Rail Class 37British Rail Class 37The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the Class was ordered as part of the British Rail modernisation plan....
locomotives, then had "one off the wrist" whilst playing back the videos on the telly. Often portrayed as being very short sighted (for example he mistook a set of golf clubs for his brother). - Tina's Tits – A schoolgirl with unreasonably large bosoms. She is convinced that they possess magical powers, when they clearly do not.
- TinribsTinribsTinribs is a character in the British adult comic Viz.He is an alleged "robot" constructed for schoolboy Tommy Taylor by his "brilliant professor" father. The strip is loosely based on Brassneck who appeared in The Dandy from 1964 to 1968...
– a badly constructed "robot". Based on the D. C. Thompson character Brassneck. - Toast Kid – a child who attempts to solve problems using toast.
- Tommy "Banana" Johnson – an influential early strip since reprinted in different formats such as a '12" remix' and an 'on ice' version
- Tommy Salter - Chemical Capers – A young boy obsessed with performing bizarre experiments (such as forcing his sister to smoke asbestos cigarettes) with a total disregard for safety. His name comes from the Thomas Salter range of chemistry setChemistry setA chemistry set is an educational toy allowing the user to perform simple chemistry experiments. The best known such sets were produced by the A. C. Gilbert Company, an early and middle 20th century American manufacturer of educational toys...
s popular during the 1970s and 1980s. - Tranny MagnetTranny MagnetTranny Magnet is the title of a comic strip by cartoonist Lew Stringer that has occasionally appeared in the British adult humour publication Viz. The "tranny magnet" of the title is middle-aged, short, fat, balding no-hoper Willie Virgin who lives with his elderly foul-mouthed Mother...
– a short, balding middle-aged bachelor who is irresistibly attractive to transsexuals and cross-dressers, although he desperately wants to find a real woman. (The title is pun on the expression "Fanny Magnet" meaning variously something which will supposedly make a man highly attractive to women, or, a man who imagines himself to be so). - Victorian DadVictorian DadVictorian Dad is a character in the British comic Viz.First appearing in Viz in the 1990s, Victorian Dad lives in the contemporary age but dresses and acts like a parody of a stereotypical gentleman of the Victorian era. He has a large top hat, always wears a suit, and sports a walrus moustache and...
– a father who applies strict Victorian values to himself and his family, even though they are living in the present. This also appeared during the Back to Basics campaign, and could be seen as a satirical commentary on it - Victor Pratt, the Stupid Twat – A top hat wearing twat, who makes poor puns to his friend on a motorcycle
- Wacky Racists – a parody of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon television series Wacky RacesWacky RacesWacky Races is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." Wacky Races ran on CBS from September...
, featuring a number of far rightFar rightFar-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...
personalities including Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
, Eugène Terre'BlancheEugène Terre'BlancheEugène Ney Terre'Blanche was a former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging during the apartheid era...
, Unity MitfordUnity MitfordUnity Valkyrie Mitford was a member of the aristocratic Mitford family, tracing its origins in Northumberland back to the 11th century Norman settlement of England. Unity Mitford's sister Diana was married to Oswald Mosley, leader of British Union of Fascists...
(akin to Penelope PitstopPenelope PitstopPenelope Pitstop is a fictional character who appeared in the Hanna-Barbera animated series Wacky Races, and starred in the spin-off The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, voiced by Janet Waldo, 1969.-Background:...
), the Ku Klux KlanKu Klux KlanKu Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
and David IrvingDavid IrvingDavid John Cawdell Irving is an English writer,best known for his denial of the Holocaust, who specialises in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany...
with his companion mutt MosleyOswald MosleySir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists...
(akin to Dick DastardlyDick DastardlyDick Dastardly is a fictional character and antagonist who appeared in various animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Dastardly's most famous appearances are main character in the series Wacky Races and its spin-off Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines...
and MuttleyMuttleyMuttley is a Hanna-Barbera animated fictional character created by Iwao Takamoto and originally voiced by Don Messick. In the 2000 Wacky Races videogame he was voiced by Billy West.-Bio:...
). Vehicles included the "Mein KampfMein KampfMein Kampf is a book written by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926...
ervan". - Wanker Watson – a parody of the Winker WatsonWinker WatsonWinker Watson is a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy for almost half a century.Winker first appeared in the 1961 Dandy Book , and then appeared in the weekly Dandy on April 1, 1961 in issue Number 1010, and was quickly established as a character of great wit...
strip from The DandyThe DandyThe Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...
, set in a boys boarding school, following the antics of Watson and his friends, and their hapless nemesis, Mr Creep. This strip prompted litigation by Dandy owners, D. C. Thomson & Co. LtdD. C. Thomson & Co. LtdD. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics...
. - William's Pissed Wellingtons – a young boy and his alcoholic wellington boots. The name is a pun on the UK children's TV cartoon series William's Wish WellingtonsWilliam's Wish WellingtonsWilliam's Wish Wellingtons is an animated BBC children's television series made by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment that was first aired from 25 October 1994 to 28 November 1997. It was narrated by Andrew Sachs of Fawlty Towers fame. It was also translated into Gaelic and aired as on BBC Two Scotland...
. - Whinging Pom – a stuffy, homesick English expatriate who unfavourably compares everything he experiences in Australia, including a beating meted out to him.
- Yankee DougalYankee DougalYankee Dougal was a one-off Viz character, appearing in a self-named full-page strip. He is a young blond English boy named Dougal Dandy, apparently not yet a teen, who desires to emulate Americans in every way possible...
– an English kid who thinks he is American. - Young Stan, Son of Man. – A young boy who blesses his family, says 'verily' a lot, blesses the bread at breakfast, and moves (i.e., walks) in a mysterious way. An irritation to his mother.
- Zip o' Lightning – a strip about a young boy who believes he has an alien friend, who is actually a robber with a bucket on his head.