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[[Image:0813foster-a.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The cast of ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', from left to right: Coco (standing backwards), Frances "Frankie" Foster, Blooregard Q. Kazoo (sitting), Madame Foster (sitting), Mr. Herriman, Mac (sitting), Wilt, and Eduardo.]]

| name = Appleseed

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| caption = Promotional poster for ''Appleseed''

| director = [[Shinji Aramaki]]

| producer = [[Fumihiko Sori]]<br/>[[Hidenori Ueki]]<br/>[[Naoko Watanabe]]

| writer = [[Haruka Handa]]<br/>[[Tsutomu Kamishiro]]

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| starring = [[Ai Kobayashi]]<br/>[[Jurota Kosugi]]<br/>[[Yuki Matsuoka]]

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| released = {{flagicon|Japan}} [[2004]]<br/>{{flagicon|USA}} [[January 14]], [[2005]]

| runtime = 105 min.

| country = [[Japan]]

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| followed_by = ''[[Appleseed EX Machina]]''

| website = http://www.appleseedthemovie.com/

| amg_id = 1:316288

| imdb_id = 0401233

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:''For other uses, see [[Appleseed]].''

The '''characters of ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends''''' are all the humans and imaginary friends seen in the [[Untied States|American]] [[animated television series]] ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.

{{nihongo|'''''Appleseed'''''|アップルシ－ド|Appurushīdo}} is an [[anime]] film, directed by [[Shinji Aramaki]] and originally released in [[Japan]] on [[May 17]], [[2004]]. It is based on the characters created by [[Masamune Shirow]] in the original ''[[Appleseed (manga)|Appleseed]]'' manga series that was published in [[1985]]. Although it shares some characters with the original series, this film's storyline is not connected to it.

== Plot outline ==

The characters are an unique departure from [[Craig McCracken]]'s first two series, ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', where he worked with series creator [[Genndy Tartakovsky]]) and ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.

Set in 2131 AD, Deunan Knute, a young legendary female soldier is a survivor of the Third World War which has brought Earth to the brink of destruction. Alongside her former lover and comrade Briareos, who is now a cyborg, Deunan is brought to a Utopian city called Olympus, also inhabited by a genetically-engineered species called Bioroids. There, she integrates into the prestigious ESWAT organization to serve as the city's guardian. But what she discovers is not the promised land of peace, but rather a deadlier, more elusive battlefield than before.

Bioroids have a lifespan much shorter than those of humans, due to the suppression of their reproductive capabilities. When the facilities that were used in the Bioroid's life extension processes are destroyed by a secret faction of the Olympus Regular Army in a terrorist attack as part of its demonstration of fear and hatred for the Bioroids, a crisis which requires immediate resolution is formed, and the Appleseed data is revealed to still exist, even though most thought it destroyed.

McCracken won an [[Emmy Award]] for his character design on the series pilot movie ''House of Bloo's''. Lynne Naylor-Reccardi was an [[Annie Awards]] nominee in [[2004]] for Character Design in an Animated Television Production. Shannon Trindle was nominated in that same category in [[2005]] for her work on ''Go Goo Go'', while McCracken (along with Mike Moon, David Dunnet and Martin Ansolabhere) were nominated (and won) that same year for their production design in ''A Lost Claus''.

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== Main Characters ==

These are the recurring characters of the series.

Under the surface, as we can see, Olympus is plagued by conflicting factions. Some believe that Bioroids are a threat to the future advancement of mankind, whilst others believe that humans themselves are the threat. The ultimate question is over everyone's right to life, and whether or not one group deserves life more than the other. At the centre of this battle is Appleseed, the data that is able to extend Bioroid life, by restoring reproductive functions.

=== Blooregard Q. Kazoo ===

[[Image:BlooandMacTackle.PNG|right|thumb|100px|Bloo (top) tackling Mac.]]

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Called Bloo for short, Bloo is a mischievous, door-shaped, blue blob. He doesn't have legs, either gliding or bouncing his way around. He doesn't appear to have arms at first glance, either, but can produce them at will if he wishes. Bloo has an exceedingly short attention span, as well as an insatiable appetite. His favorite foods are salt and vinegar-flavored [[potato chips]], cranberry apple juice, and celery. What Bloo lacks in responsibility, however, he makes up for in charisma. In early episode, he was goofy and naive, like in ''House of Bloo's''. In more recent episodes, he has become spoiled and selfish. [[Keith Ferguson]] is the voice of Bloo.

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===Deunan Coco Knute===

[[Image:Walkingcoco_edited.jpg|right|thumb|100px]]

The daughter of Carl and Dr. Gilliam Knute, Deunan, who is considered as a beautiful and highly skilled warrior, has spent almost her entire life fighting in a war that was, for the most part, over. It was not until she was rescued by an ES.W.A.T. (Extra Special Weapons And Tactics) team, led by Hitomi and her former lover Briareos, in the middle of a ruined city just after Deunan had a short but fierce battle with unidentified enemies, that she was finally evacuated from the Badlands. When she arrived in Olympus, the change of environment was severe, but it was a greater shock to her when she found that Briareos had lost over 75% of his original body during the last Global War and was now a cyborg.

Dreamed up by a young girl stranded on an desert island, Coco is sanity-challenged imaginary friend. Ever since leaving her creator, she has seemingly gone slowly insane, as illustrated in the episode ''My So-Called Wife''. She has the head and neck of a [[palm tree]], the body of an [[airplane]], the beak of a [[bird]], and human legs and feet. Because of that, she has been called a "bird, airplane, plant-thing" by some of the residents. Despite being part bird and plane, we learn in the episode ''Foster's Goes to Europe'' that she's afraid of flying. Her only verbal utterances and written means of communication is "coco" (with each [[syllable]] pronounced "co"), which most of the imaginary friends, Mac, Frankie, and Madame Foster can understand. This can lead to strange conversation, such as in the episode ''House Of Bloo's'', when Bloo repeatedly said yes every time Coco said "coco," until Wilt explained that that's all she ever says. When Bloo asked what she was really asking them, Wilt replied "You want any juice?" When she is excited, scared, or needs the attention of others, she has the ability to lay [[plastic]] [[Easter eggs]], similar to those found in arcades, that can contain anything from Ming [[vase]]s to [[ticket]]s for redemption of prizes to [[money]] or even auto parts. She won't take requests, though, as seen in the episode ''Camp Keep A Good Mac Down''. She also had a love affair with a floor lamp in the episode ''Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé'', and she reportedly has a vacation home away from Foster's, having to pay for that in ''A Lost Claus'' by playing a Mall Santa, much to the disbelief of Mac, who accidently exposes her, getting her fired, which was settled out of court after her wrongful termination suit was filed. [[Candi Milo]] provides the voice of Coco.

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The day after she was brought to the city of Olympus, Deunan learned that over half of the population of the city was composed of artificial humans called Bioroids and that her new friend, Hitomi, was one herself. Deunan also discovers that other people are looking for her, mostly because she possesses, without knowing it, the secret of "Appleseed". That interest will become extremely important when Hitomi's life will be at risk and the "Appleseed Data" will be needed to save her and the entire Bioroid population of Olympus. But the discovery of the "Appleseed Data" could condemn the human population to extinction without Deunan knowing about this detail. But that would mean defying the powerful Olympus Regular Army (O.R.A.), composed entirely of humans and under the command of General Edward Uranus III and Colonel Hades.

=== Her Royal Duchess Diamond Persnickity, The First, Last and Only ===

[[Image:Deutchess.png|right|thumb|100px]]

{{anime voices|Ai Kobayashi|Amanda Winn Lee}}

Called Duchess for short, this imaginary friend is a scheming, arrogant [[Picasso]]-like pain in the neck, who is actually [[two-dimensional]] when she turns in certain directions. She's considered a "high-maintenance" friend, not wanting to do anything for herself. In the pilot, she and Terrence conspire to get rid of Bloo after a spoiled, bratty girl wants him (and in the process, rename him "Tiffany") instead of Duchess, who was chosen by her parents. As punishment for trying to get rid of Bloo, she has to stay at the house no and is no longer eligible for adoption. We also know that she has no liking for unauthorized parties as shown in the episode ''Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé'' because it disturbs her twenty-three hours of beauty sleep (and Bloo would like to see her make it twenty-four). During that party, she tried to bribe a sugar-rush induced Mac into calling Madame Foster by using "stupid [[gourmet]] chocolates" as a [[bribe]]. She was adopted by the Applebee family in the episode ''Duchess of Wails''. Needless to say, she is not happy about it and neither was Mac, who lives next door. When her mom says if it doedn't stop they will move to Singapore, until he and Bloo return her to Foster's after an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage everything in the Applebee's apartment. [[Grey DeLisle]] provides the snooty and husky [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]-accented voice similar to [[June Foray]]'s Natasha Fatale from the cult TV classic cartoon series ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' to this imaginary friend some people can't handle.

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===Briareos Eduardo Hecatonchires===

[[Image:Eduardo.png|right|thumb|100px]]

At one time, Briareos was Deunan Knute's lover, as well as a comrade-in-arms in battle. During two years of hard separation for both of them, he was severely injured on the North African front. When Hitomi and the Elders saved him, he had over seventy-five percent of his body replaced by state-of-the-art mechanical components, making him a highly advanced cyborg. During Deunan's stay in Olympus he is assigned by his ES.W.A.T. superiors to protect her and also begins to search for the "Appleseed Data." In the original story, Briareos was a black man who lived in the mediterranean who served under Colonel Carl Knute, Deunan's father. In the original manga, Briareos and Deunan are not separated, and she is well aware of his cyborg body replacement.

In spite of his meanacing appearance, Eduardo is a "protector friend" and is as gentle as anyone in the house. He looks something like a [[Minotaur|minotaur]] or one of the wild things in [[Maurice Sendak]]'s ''[[Where The Wild Things Are]]'' with his purple fur, horns, fangs and skull-shaped belt buckle. Despite being a protector friend, he's something of a coward, as noted in ''House Of Bloo's'' by Wilt that he wouldn't hurt a fly, because, as Eduardo pointed out, he's too scared of them. He likes potatoes and was imagined up by a young child who lived in a tough neighborhood before coming to Foster's. In the episode ''Who Let The Dogs In?'', we discover that he loves dogs and has a collecton of beanie baby-type toys, and allegedly also has the brain of a four-year old, best demonstrated in the episode ''Bye-Bye Nerdy'' when Bloo asked him which way is up, to which he responds "I don't know." Bloo replies about being in a mirror world "And yet, Eduardo hasn't changed." [[Tom Kenny]] voices Eduardo, who speaks "[[Spanglish]]" and some [[French language|French]], even telling Bloo in the episode ''Foster's Goes To Europe'' that he can find roast beef in the kitchen after Bloo in a mocking French accent asks "Madame, why is there roast beef on my toothbrush?"

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{{anime voices|Jūrōta Kosugi|Jamieson Price}}

=== Frances "Frankie" Foster ===

[[Image:Frankiestanding.jpg|right|thumb|50px]]

===Athena Areios===

Frankie is the easy-going, 22-year-old granddaughter of Madame Foster who is in charge of everything at Foster's, from cooking to cleaning the house to doing the laundry. She occasionally feels stressed out from everything, letting Mr. Herriman get under her skin more often than not for sticking to his rules. We also learn that she's into [[punk rock]], as discovered in ''Everyone Knows It's Bendy''. She can be quite charming, though, as seen in the episode ''Frankie My Dear'', where Mac, Bloo, an imaginary [[Prince Charming]], and a pizza delivery boy named Chris (sometimes incorrectly named as either Chad or Quinn) all fall briefly in love with her. Frankie can be skeptical at times, as seen in the episode ''Imposter's Home For Um... Make 'Em Up Pals'', where she thinks Goofball John McGee isn't an imaginary friend because of his overly-human appearance. In fact, Goofball has an elephantine trunk hidden behind a red clown nose he had been wearing at the time. She also has an unhealthy addiction to Madame Foster's home-baked cookies, often driving her into a frenzy. It's not a good idea to get on her bad side, as she gave Mr. Herriman all sorts of fits in the episode ''Busted'', having to clean all over the house until discovering what had been happening the whole time (Mac and the friends tried to fix her grandmother's bust, and then woke up from a headbutt given to her by Eduardo and placed in a closet where there were lots of those busts) or in ''Crime After Crime'', where she tried making "It" (a smelly, stinky food concoction that Bloo likened to vomit) many times, only to have ceiling plaster fall in, which forced her to make the whole thing over and over. When she finally manages to make the dish, Bloo is the only one left to eat it. Throughout the episode, Mr. Herriman had punsihed everyone but Bloo with no supper during an extended attempt to dispose of his hidden carrots. Ironically, Bloo was the only one actually doing anything wrong, having seen "It" earlier on and doing everything he could to get out of supper. The others simply saw his carrots or were near his hiding places. Bloo ended up having to eat the entire meal by himself as punishment for all his earlier pranks. Grey DeLisle provides Frankie's voice.

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Prime Minister of Olympus, Athena Areios is a first-generation Bioroid created by Deunan's mother, Dr. Gilliam Knute, and served as her lab assistant until Dr. Knute's death. Because Athena is a first-generation Bioroid, she doesn't have the emotional limitations the second-generation has, so she has greater latitude to use "extraordinary" methods to try to find Deunan. Of course, she also runs the risk that either the Council of Elders or General Uranus would find out and take action against her, so she, along with her chief-of staff Nike, have to be very careful.

=== Mac ===

[[Image:MAC2.png|right|thumb|100px|Mac blowing a gum-bubble.]]

{{anime voices|Mami Koyama|Mary Elizabeth McGlynn}}

Mac is a shy, precocious, eight-year-old boy who created Blooregard Q. Kazoo five years before the show begins. Even though they argue, Mac and Bloo are best friends, and Bloo is possibly the only friend Mac has. Mac often functions as Bloo's [[conscience]], since Bloo's freewheeling egotism often gets him into trouble. [[Sean Marquette]] voices Mac.

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=== Madame Foster Nike===

[[Image:Madame Foster.png|right|thumb|100px]]

Nike is Athena Areios's chief-of-staff, as well as being commander-in-chief of ES.W.A.T. Although she is a second-generation Bioroid, and being such having her emotions controlled, she is fiercely loyal to Athena, not to mention the Bioroids' prime purpose: the salvation of humanity.

Madame Foster founded the home that bears her name. She's had a strange life, having once gotten lost in the [[labyrinth]]ine house for three days, eating nothing but acorns and toothpaste. She also spent forty-six days in the horse stables when her granddaughter accidentally let the Scribbles out from the forbidden door in the cold autumn of 1984. She also owns what looks like a late [[1970]]'s [[Pontiac Firebird]] sports car complete with the bird on the hood similar to the one shown in the ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' movies, which she likes to drive around town. Kooky and charming, and always wearing a smile for anyone to cheer them up as their surrogate grandmother, she's a fun-loving old woman who always finds a way to have a good time, even if she has to break Mr. Herriman's to do so. Mr. Herriman is never happy about this, but since it was Madame Foster who creted him in the first place, he can't do much about it. She often pokes good-hearted fun at others, like in episode ''Mac Daddy'' where she punned Mac, Bloo, and Cheese as "Mac and Bloo Cheese" (referring to the popular pasta dinner). ell as in , where sheShe's quite sneaky when she needs to be, as seen in the episode ''Foster's Goes to Europe'' when she purloined Mac's tickets to Europe with a rather long hug. She then went on vacation with her friends and an homesick imaginary friend named Eurotrish. Madame Foster and Mac seem to be kindred spirits, as she has never gotten rid of her imaginary friend (Mr. Herriman) and Mac refuses to give up Bloo. Candi Milo provides the nutty voice of the oldest human resident of the house.

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{{anime voices|Miho Yamada|Mimi Woods}}

=== Mr. Herriman ===

[[Image:MrHerriman.png|right|thumb|50px]]

===Hitomi===

Mr. Herriman (also known as "Funny Bunny" or "Mr. H." for short) is an [[anthropomorphic]] [[rabbit]] (like [[Harvey (movie)|Harvey]]) who wears a [[top hat]], a [[monocle]], a vest, and a mustache while speaking in a [[British English|British]] [[accent (linguistics)|accent]] in a personification of the [[Edwardian]] era. He runs the house for Madame Foster, who created him, thus making him the oldest friend in the house, which is something he is quite sensitive about. Mr. Herriman is a stickler for rules, having made many silly and impractical rules in an attempt to keep everything running smoothly. He is also an inviting target of jokes around the house by the others, especially in the episode ''World Wide Wabbit'', when Bloo and Mac accidentally shoot a video of him performing for Madame Foster, which Frankie and the others had a hard time believing. In many episodes, we have seen that he has a disdain for Bloo, often wishing that he would be adopted. In the episode ''Crime After Crime'' he is revealed to have an addiction to carrots, despite his best attempts to ignore or get over it. His voice is provided by [[Tom Kane]].

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A second-generation Bioroid, Hitomi is charged with recruiting new members of ES.W.A.T.. She had led the rescue mission of Deunan Knute in the Badlands, as well as aiding her getting settled in Olympus. Although her emotions are regulated, she has interest in the emotion of love, and is disturbed by hate, as expressed by the human soldiers of the O.R.A, especially towards the Bioroids.

=== Terrence ===

[[Image:Terrance.png|right|thumb|50px]]

{{anime voices|Yuki Matsuoka|Karen Strassman}}

Terrence is a typical thirteen-year-old [[bully]]. This bullying is often directed at his younger sibling, Mac. He has a [[mullet (haircut)|mullet haircut]], bad acne on his face, wears a [[grunge]] style of plaid wool shirt, and is considered to have the intelligence of a wet match in a damp cave as seen in the episode ''Seeing Red'', in which he imagines up a red block ("Red") he wanted to call "Green," only it turned out to have exact opposite personality of his. In the pilot, he conspires with Duchess to get rid of Bloo permanently, but fails and is punished with cleaning out the imaginary horse stables, where he was attacked by the unicorns, whom he had called "girly" earlier in the episode. In the episode ''Eddie Monster'', he befriends Eduardo in a dumpster in the slums of the city and recruits him to fight in the Extremeasaur Battle circut, but is caught when he brags to Mac about it. In ''Duchess of Wails'', he tells Mac that because their next-door neighbors, the Applebees, have adopted Duchess, much to their chagrin, they plan to move to [[Singapore]], which he mistakenly believes to be in [[Wisconsin]]. [[Tara Strong]] voices Terrence.

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===Yoshitsune Wilt Miyamoto===

[[Image:Wilt.png|right|thumb|50px]]

Also a second-generation Bioroid, Yoshitsuni Miyamoto... or "Yoshi" as he is referred to, is ES.W.A.T.'s chief mechanic and Land Strider designer. He also would like to further examine Briareos' cybernetic armor more closely, if Briareos would allow it. His knowledge of mechanical workings would become useful later in the film. Yoshi seems to care for Hitomi.

Wilt was imagined by a [[basketball]] fan, getting his name from the legendary center [[Wilt Chamberlain]]. He wears old school styled basketball sneakers, a red, white and blue sweatband on his wrist and the number one on his chest like a basketball jersey. He has only his right arm to use as his left arm is a stump. The tallest of the imaginary friends, his eyes are on stalks protruding from his head, the left one being a bit wonky and likely blind, however he prides himself on finding abandoned [[imaginary friend]]s making him a "helper friend", and is gentle to a fault, sometimes apologizing a lot. In ''Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé'', we also learn that he's an excellent dancer, but don't let him host contests, like the County Imaginary Friends Talent Show Pagent in ''Hiccy Burp'', because he tends to get nervous in front of large gatherings. [[Phil LaMarr]] plays Wilt.

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{{anime voices|Toshiyuki Morikawa|Dave Wittenberg}}

== Minor Characters ==

These characters have usually had one episode dedicated to them. Some also reappear as background characters on occasion.

===Edward Uranus III===

=== The Ball-and-Chain Extreme-o-saur ===

[[Image:Extremeasaurus.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Duchess used this Extreme-o-saur in conjunction with Terrence to try to get rid of Bloo.{{fn|P}}]]

Supreme commander of the O.R.A., General Edward Uranus III has a great distrust of the Bioroids, and wishes to either control them or totally eliminate them. But unlike his subordinate Hades, he is not given to irrationality. A friend of the Knute family, Uranus deeply regrets the death of Dr. Gilliam Knute and wants to persuade Deunan to help him in his quest.

Seen in the episode ''House Of Bloo's'', this monster, which is similar in appearance to Nintendo's [[Chain Chomp]], was one of many "Extremeasaurs" that were created by jerky teenage boys. This one was kept in the back of the house far away from trouble until Duchess and Terrence conspired to rid themselves of Bloo by letting it out of its' cage. When Eduardo broke one of its tentacles, the broken pieces turned into bombs. More types of these monsters were seen in the episode ''Eddie Monster'' when Eduardo tries to find their "whizzbee" when it lands in their cage.

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However, when General Uranus was made aware about about the Council of Elder's plans to replace humans with Bioroids, then sterilize the humans using the "D-tank", he voluntarily surrendered, rather than be used as a pawn in the Council's plans.

=== Bendy ===

[[Image:Bendy.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Bendy was up to no good.{{fn|P}}]]

{{anime voices|Yuzuru Fujimoto|Michael McConnohie}}

Seen in the episode ''Everyone Knows It's Bendy'', this imaginary friend was blamed by the parents of a young boy for all the trouble caused around their house, and was left at Foster's as a result. He then wreaks havoc around the residence, and pins the blame on everybody else, acting the part of the innocent victim so believably that both Frankie and Mr. Herriman believe him. Bloo was eventually able to expose Bendy. Bendy's voice was provided by [[Jeff Bennett]].

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=== Berry Hades===

[[Image:Berry.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Berry was "berry" psycotic.{{fn|P}}]]

Colonel Hades is Gen. Uranus's subordinate. Like Uranus, he has a great distrust of the Bioroids. However, his distrust has evolved into an irrational, all-consuming hatred, and wishes to see the Bioroids destroyed.

A seemingly cute, pinkish-red creature seen in the episode ''Berry Scary'', she arrives to make Foster's her home. Once there, she falls in love with Bloo and wants to be with him forever, that is until she meets Mac. During Mac's and Bloo's attempts to break world records, Berry sabotages them by "accident." While attempting to break a world record for the largest rubber-band ball, the tables are finally turned as Mac snaps the last rubber band, and with Bloo's help, shows the world what she is really like. The psychotic imaginary friend, who speaks with "berry" in sentences similar to what the dialogue in the [[Smurfs]] TV series sounded like and how [[Strawberry Shortcake]] speaks, is voiced by Grey DeLisle.

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Originally, Hades served under Carl Knute, Deunan's father, in Los Angeles' S.W.A.T., but was thrown out by Carl because of his extreme methods. He held a grudge with Carl, and is furious that Carl's D.N.A. is in all the Bioroids.

=== Blake Superior ===

[[Image:HikkyBurp.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Blake Superior (left) and Richie Wildebrat challenge Bloo and Mac.{{fn|P}}]]

In the end, he is killed by Deuan's pistol, which was her father's.

This superhero tiger is seen in the episode ''Hiccy Burp''. In the opinion of his creator, Richie Wildebrat (voiced by Tom Kenny), is the best imaginary friend in the whole world. Using the day of registration for the annual County Imaginary Friends Talent Show Pagent (which serves as the home's biggest fundraiser) to make fun of Mac and Bloo, Richie says he's going to win the contest. Mac then decides to register Bloo for the event to get back at him. Mac and Bloo come up with an act of singing a song to hiccups he had suffered the night before and were incurable, but is stolen by Richie and Blake by using burps instead of hiccups. His name is a pun on the largest of the five [[Great Lakes]], [[Lake Superior]]. Phil LaMarr does the vocal talents for Blake Superior.

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{{anime voices|Takehito Koyasu|Jack Aubree}}

=== Bloo Clones ===

[[Image:24-0074.jpg|right|100px|thumb|There were plenty of Bloo clones in ''Bloo's Brothers''.{{fn|P}}]]

===Kudoh===

When Mac publicized Foster's by using Bloo as part of his show-and-tell in the episode ''Bloo's Brothers'', the other kids were so amazed that they decided instead to create their own versions of Bloo. All the kids eventually dropped off their various Bloo clones for various reasons, such as their parents not wanting them or they didn't look right. The real trouble, though, begins when Mac comes to pick up Bloo for a trip to the Ice Charades, which they had gotten front row tickets (they sat in the second row, despite this fact) to thanks to Frankie and the others for helping out. After eliminating most of the clones, it came down to two Bloos. One performs a speech inspired by ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''. Sure enough, Mac knows better and finds the real Bloo. After this, Joe Icecharades comes to the house to tell everyone that the show has been cancelled because the Olympic Gold Medalist that plays the blueberry broke his/her leg and the show is cancelled. Mac gives him the idea for a replacement "Blooberry." Look closely (as they go by fast) for Bloo clones that look like internet toon [[Homestar Runner (character)|Homestar Runner]] and underacheiver (and proud of it) [[Bart Simpson]].

Kudoh is one of the top members of ES.W.A.T. He participates in some training sessions with Deunan and eventually earns her respect. When she and Briareos head to Dr. Gilliam Knute's old lab, Kudoh comes along. After they are betrayed by a fellow ES.W.A.T. member who is sympathetic towards the O.R.A., Kudoh stays behind, keeping his gun trained on Hades so that Deunan and Briareos can escape.

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Shortly after this, Kudoh is gunned down by numerous O.R.A. soldiers and collapses dead against the wall of a hallway. Deunan expresses great distress over his death, but Briareos drags her away reluctantly, the O.R.A. hot on their trail.

=== Cheese ===

[[Image:Cheese.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Cheese likes chocolate milk and cereal.{{fn|P}}]]

{{anime voices|Tadahisa Saizen|Jack Aubree}}

When Mac woke up next to this friend in the episode ''Mac Daddy'', he immediately assumed that he had inadvertantly created him. In fact, Cheese was imagined by the girl next door, named Louise, and had a habit of wandering off. He likes chocolate milk and cereal, even though he is [[lactose intolerant]]. Allowed to stay at Foster's under the same conditions as Bloo, Madame Foster had a fun time making puns of their names, such as "Mac and Cheese" and "Bloo Cheese." Cheese annoyed Bloo to no end, and Bloo tried to get rid of him multiple times. Such attempts included throwing him over a fence into a playground, sending him to [[Timbuktu]], throwing him on a bus, and tying him to balloons. He finally settled on locking him in a bathroom. Cheese managed to escape and Bloo eventually imagined the worst things that could happen to him in the house after a guilt trip by Mac. He was found and Louise came to pick him up. Candi Milo provides Cheese's voice, which in design and voice, is eerily similar to an internet cartoon character named [[Salad Fingers]] according to blogs and bulletin boards on the web. According to series senior producer Lauren Faust, Cheese is scheduled to return in a fourth season episode. He is deemed one of the most popular "Imaginary Friends" on the show due to his obvious comical bits and odd personality.

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===Dr. EurotrishGilliam Knute===

[[Image:Eurotrish_edited.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Eurotrish was homesick.{{fn|P}}]]

Dr. Gilliam Knute was the scientist that created the Bioroids, as well as the "D-tank" virus, which is capable to redering normal humans sterile. It was during the creation of the first generation that she realized that the Council of Elders wanted to use the Bioroids to replace normal humanity altogether. Therefore, she arranged that the Bioroids would not be able to reproduce but kept the formula to activate their reproductive systems - codenamed "Appleseed" - in a pendant, which after she had her assistant Athena evacuated, she had given to her young daughter Deunan, with the promise to give it to Athena if she asked. Dr. Knute was later captured by the military - and mistakenly killed by a soldier in front of Deunan.

In the episode ''Foster's Goes to Europe'', Eurotrish was homesick after being sent to Foster's from her original home in [[Europe]], this friend, with a Scottish tam-o'shanter, British [[Union Jack]] dress, [[Swiss]] braided hair, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] wooden shoes, and speaking with a Italian-Russian-French accent dreams about going back to the homeland. She expresses this through song, doing so consistently throughout the episode. Her song switches from sad to happy and back again as she is given and loses a ticket to Europe. Finally, when she is taken to Europe by Madame Foster and visits her family, they tell her the real reason she was sent there: her constant singing. Her attitude reminds many of Fievel Mousekewitz or his friend Tania from the series of ''[[An American Tail]]'' movies. Grey DeLisle provides the talking and singing voice for her. Incidentally, her name is a pun of the [[List of ethnic slurs|insult]] ''[[Eurotrash]]''.

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=== Goofball John McGee ===

[[Image:GoofballJohnMcGee.jpg|right|100px|thumb|It turned out that Goofball's red nose hid an elephantine trunk.{{fn|P}}]]

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Seen in the episode ''Imposter's Home For Um... Make 'Em Up Pals'', Goofball appears to be a normal human teenager, albeit an oddly-dressed one. He wears a spotted tie and a red rubber nose over his common clothing. Frankie doesn't believe him to be an imaginary friend, thinking that he's a human trying to pass himself off as an imaginary friend. After causing all sorts of problems for Frankie, such as having to wash his dirty football jersey because he is the "mascot" for the football team at John "Larry" McGee's school and ordering pizza after Frankie had to go shopping because he and Blooregard ate everything in the kitchen, Goofball made a call to his family in [[Canada]] which he calls "Canadia." As seemingly odd as it is, his red nose (which he bought at the circus) actually hid a small trunk similar to an [[elephant]], and was indeed an imaginary friend, as well and the school's football team mascot. Tom Kenny does Goofball's voice.

The original soundtrack and music to the series features an [[electronic music|electronic]], [[techno music|techno]] and [[trance music|trance]] theme, with the likes of [[Paul Oakenfold]], [[Basement Jaxx]], [[Boom Boom Satellites]], [[Akufen]], [[Carl Craig]], [[T. Raumschmiere]] and [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] handling the music.

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==Sequel==

=== Goo Goo Gaga ===

Director [[Shinji Aramaki]] will also be directing the sequel to the 2004 movie, titled [[Appleseed EX Machina]], which is set to be released in fall 2007 in Japan. The movie will once again feature animated [[computer-generated imagery]] and [[John Woo]] is fully involved in the production.

[[Image: Goo_Goo_Gaga_edited.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Goo Goo Gaga (left) created lots of imaginary friends.{{fn|P}}]]

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Seen in ''Go Goo Go'', this girl has a hyperactive imagination. Whenever she visits Foster's, she becomes overstimulated and creates friend after friend. This resulted in her being banned from Foster's. Unaware of the rule, Mac brought her inside after an incident involving an eight-man tobaggan stuck in a tree that Bloo needed even though it was the middle of June, which broke the strap on his backpack. It was a long story, according to Bloo. In any case, after seeing Bloo, she imagined up a hoarde of similar versions, all with one extra feature or another. After Bloo continued to let her in, Frankie and Mr. Herriman got the mistaken impression that Mac and Goo had a relationship. Overly-nice kid that he is, Mac couldn't effectively get rid of her. After Goo filled the house with so many friends that it became unlivable, Mac finally snapped and told her that he didn't like her. After realizing that she had repaired his backpack strap, he apologized and convinced her to stop creating imaginary friends. In the end, Goo and Mac become great friends, so much so, that she would replace Wilt as the winner of the "Friend of the Month" award for a long time. Her name is likely to be a reference to the ''[[Sonic Youth]]'' song, ''[[Goo_(album)|My Friend Goo]]''. Grey DeLisle lends her voice to Goo, who according to Erik Ghendt, an former animator on the series, will make occasional appearances, which has been confirmed by Ms. Faust.

*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401233/ IMDB's Appleseed article]

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==External links==

*[http://www.appleseedthemovie.com/ Official ''Appleseed'' (2004) movie website]

* ''[http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/appleseed Appleseed]'' at [[MetaCritic]]

*[http://imdb.com/title/tt0401233/ Details of the 2004 anime] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

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=== Imaginary Fleas ===

[[Image:Fleas.jpg|right|100px|thumb|These fleas moved from Chewy to Eduardo to Bloo's fur coat to Mr. H to their locked room at Foster's.{{fn|P}}]]

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Seen in the episode ''Land of the Flea'', these fleas originally lived on Chewy, Eduardo's imaginary puppy friend. After a trip to a salon where he got a bath, the fleas escaped to Eduardo's fur, where they took up residence and then multiplied by the thousands. Bloo got jealous and wanted the fleas for himself, but Eduardo didn't want to get rid of them. Frankie and Mr. Herriman tried to do so, regardless of this. The fleas ruined every plan that Frankie and Mr. Herriman tried, but ended up on Bloo when he shaved Eduardo and made a coat from his fur. Since Bloo wasn't exactly a model home for them, they took over Mr. Herriman. Ultimately, after negotiations, they were allowed to live in a room that would never be opened again. It was filled with fur shaved from ever furry imaginary friend. Bloo ended up letting them out during the credits The fleas' voices were supplied by Tom Kenny and Candi Milo.

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=== Imaginary Puppies ===

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[[Image:Chewy.jpg|right|thumb|100px|This imaginary puppy, Chewy, was adopted by Eduardo.{{fn|P}}]]

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Mr. Herriman is deathly afraid of dogs, and when Eduardo brings in a puppy, named Chewy, in the episode ''Who Let the Dogs In?'', he freaks out. Mac finds more of these imaginary puppies in the back of the house, and when Mr. Herriman calls for a house meeting thinking someone had been trying to take his life, Madame Foster and the others try to keep the puppies away from the rabbit. When it was finally discovered that they were imaginary pets, they were allowed to stay. They have made appearances in two later episodes, ''Crime After Crime'' and ''Land of the Flea'', where Chewy has a case of the (imaginary) fleas.

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=== Imaginary Santas ===

[[Image:Cap0022.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Frankie breaks up a fight between the first two of the many imaginary Santas that come to Foster's every Christmas.{{fn|P}}]]

Every time around Christmas, kids imagine up a gaggle of imaginary Santas. Mac and Bloo found out about this trend in ''A Lost Claus''. Mac and Bloo thought the first one that they saw was the real one, until the second one appeared and fought him. Soon after that, more Santas appeared, and Frankie broke up the fight between the first two and then told Mac that those Santas were imaginary ones and they were as real as her Aunt Fanny. Tom Kane and Phil LaMarr provided the voices of the first two Imaginary Santas.

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=== Ivan ===

[[Image:Ivan.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Stevie lost Ivan when his mom took a picture with a flash camera.{{fn|P}}]]

Seen in the episode ''Sight For Sore Eyes'', this seeing-eye friend with a hundred eyes was lost at a party with his blind friend Stevie (a reference to blind musician [[Stevie Wonder]]) after Stevie's mother took a flash photograph of both. After much searching on the part of Mac and Bloo, he was eventually returned, only for the incident to happen all over again. [[Kevin McDonald]] gave his voice to Ivan.

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=== Mac's Mother ===

[[Image:Terrance.gif|thumb|right|100px|Terrance meeting with Mac's Mother.{{fn|P}}]]

She decides after one fight too many and blaming Terrence for it as well as Mac and Bloo, it was her decision to get Bloo out of the house and the subsequent path to Foster's. She is quite similar to Ms. Sara Bellum from ''The PowerPuff Girls'', considering that you never see her face. She returned to the series in ''Duchess of Wails'', complaing about the Applebees adopting Duchess and her thinking about moving to Singapore... not in Wisconsin, but Malaysia, and in the Christmas special ''A Lost Claus'' when after Mac asked "What does a guy have to do to get underwear for Christmas?", she remembers to get some for Mac's birthday…and socks. Grey DeLisle plays the voice of reason — no pun intended.

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=== The New Guy ===

[[Image:NewGuy.jpg|right|100px|thumb|The New Guy wasn't offended by Bloo's joke after all.{{fn|P}}]]

A tall, light-blue monster-like figure, similar to Sulley in ''[[Monsters Inc.]]'' or [[Sweetums]] of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', seen in ''Beat With A Schtick'', he feels the brunt of Bloo asking "How's the weather up there?" He tells Bloo to meet him out back at 4 PM that day, and Bloo fears the worst. In reality, he's a prop [[comedian]] similar to Gallagher and says that the line he gave him was a classic. When he asks Bloo for an opinion on his act, Bloo says that it stinks, and The New Guy slams him down with his fist. Eduardo thinks "it is the best punchline he delivered all day." Thankfully, he still lives in the house, as seen in ''Land of the Flea'', where he was willing to donate his fur to keep some imaginary fleas happy. The New Guy is voiced by Phil LaMarr.

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=== Red ===

[[Image:RedImaginaryFriend.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Red (on the left) wanted to originally crush Blooregard under orders from his creator, Terrence.{{fn|P}}]]

Created by Terrence in the episode ''Seeing Red'' to get rid of Bloo while bothering younger brother Mac at the home, he turns out to be the opposite of his creator's persona, even after Blooregard abuses him on a tour where he got stung by imaginary bees, eaten and spat out by a sea serpant, and kicked by a unicorn who he called a "pretty horsie." Because Terrence is Mac's brother, Red would be in turn Bloo's cousin, and it is not known if the same rules would apply in his case. When Terrence tells Red to "kill, smash, maim, destroy (and) crush" Bloo, Red sees right through the ruse, and promptly attacks his creator. Red's voice was provided by Phil LaMarr.

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=== Scribbles ===

[[Image:Scribbles.jpg|right|100px|thumb|The scribbles were nothing but trouble.{{fn|P}}]]

Appearing in the episode ''The Trouble With Scribbles'', these are the first imaginary friends of babies that only can only perform singular tasks. They were released by Bloo (accidentally) from the the room they had been permanently locked in. The reason the Scribbles were locked away was because there were far too many of them, and Mr. Herriman thought they were more trouble than they were worth.

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=== The Snooty Mom and Dad and their Bratty Little Girl ===

[[Image:Brattylittlegirlsparents.jpg|right|thumb|100px|The snooty Mom and snooty Dad who wanted to adopt Duchess.{{fn|P}}]][[Image:Brattylittlegirl.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Their bratty little girl wanted Bloo, instead.{{fn|P}}]]

Seen in the episode ''House of Bloo's'', the snooty mom and dad are millionaires with an equally snooty, as well as bratty, six-year-old daughter. The snooty dad has long dark blond hair, wears a white shirt, blue plaid shorts, white shocks and brown shoes. His wife has long, light-blond hair with a black ribbon, wears a white shirt, plaid clamdigger pants and black shoes. While they were in the midst of adpoting Duchess, their six-years-old daughter decided that she wanted to adopt Bloo, instead, and rename him "Tiffany." The nameless daughter has orange-red hair with a light blue hairband, wears a white shirt with a navy blue sweater vest, blue plaid skirt, white knee-high shocks and black [[Mary Jane (shoe)|Mary Jane shoes]]. Eduardo, Wilt, and Coco all tried to stop her, intercepting Bloo along the way (thinking the same thing but in the midst of the confusion, trying to keep Blooregard from one another), but then Mac arrived to save the day. The father is a spoof of the title character's father from ''Dexter's Laboratory'', while the mom was inspired by pre-school teacher Ms. Keane and the bratty girl was likely inspired by Princess Morbucks from ''The PowerPuff Girls'', two series that Craig McCracken has worked on. Phil LaMarr did the snooty father's preppy voice, while Tara Strong provided the voices of both the snooty mom and the bratty little girl.

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=== Uncle Pockets ===

[[Image:Uncle_Pockets.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Uncle Pockets (right) with Madame Foster.{{fn|P}}]]

The first, and many consider the best, imaginary friend to come to Foster's, he speaks in rhyme like a character from [[Dr. Seuss]] and returned for a visit in the episode ''Bloo Done It''. Bloo, who has started up a new in-house newspaper, believes that he's up to no good and thinks that he is trying to rid the house of their matriarch by "rubbing her out." In reality, he was giving Madame Foster a trip to a day spa as a thank you for all the work she has done, which included a massage, and carries reminders of all the friends that he's made in his life. Uncle Pockets was voiced by [[Kevin Michael Richardson]].

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== "Adoption" online ==

In [[2005]], Cartoon Network's Latin American service website gave viewers a chance to adopt an imaginary friend online, with Bloo, Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo as their choices. Similar to the [[Neopets]] site, the web surfers gave their friends food to eat (some good, some not so good) and games to play to keep their imaginary friend happy. At the end of the promotional period, the adoptees got a certificate thanking them for participating. In [[September]] of that same year, a similar month long game was launched in the [[United States of America|USA]] on Cartoon Network's [http://www.cartoonnetwork.com official site], along with a separate link at [http://www.fostersfriends.com FostersFriends.com]. In addition to the four previously mentioned friends, players could adopt Berry, Uncle Pockets, Cheese, or Ivan. This updated version also used the [[voice actors]] associated with those characters, improved graphics, and increased use of Flash animation. Until December 10, 2005, those who made adoptions were able to keep an eye on them.

== Character Names in Other Languages ==

Because ''Foster's'' is now being seen worldwide on Cartoon Network affiliates in their home countries, as well as on [[Teletoon]]/[[Télétoon]] in Canada, there are some slight changes to the names of the characters in those countries. Here are some examples:

*'''Bloo:''' Blú (Latin America); 布羅 (bù lúo) (Taiwan); ブルーリガード・キュー・カズー (burūrigādo kyū kazū) (full name) (Japan); ブルー (burū) (short name) (Japan).

*'''Mac:''' Max (Sweden); Maks (Poland); 麥克 (mài kè) (Taiwan); マック (makku) (Japan).

*'''Madame Foster:''' Señora Foster (Latin America and Spain); La Signora Foster (Italy); Pani Foster (Poland); 法斯德夫人 (fǎ sī dé fū rén) (Taiwan); マダム・フォスター (madamu fosutā) (Japan).

*'''Frankie:''' Franka (Poland); 法蘭克 (fǎ lán kè) (Taiwan); フランキー (furankī) (Japan).

*'''Terrence:''' Tadek (Poland); Terrible (pronounced "ter-ee-blay", Latin America); Terrivle (like "terrible", Brazil); Robert (Norway); Torker (Sweden); Tómas (Spain)<!--do you know what Chinese name stands for Terrence?-->; テレンス (terensu) (Japan).

*'''Wilt:''' Wildo (Latin America); Minguado (Brazil); Stakan (Norway); Ville Visen (Sweden); Chudy (Poland); 威特 (wēi tè) (Taiwan); ウィルト (wiruto) (Japan).

*'''Eduardo:''' 亞多杜 (yà duō dù) (Taiwan); エドゥアルド (eduarudo) (Japan).

*'''Mr. Herriman:''' Señor Conejo ("Mister Rabbit", Latin America); Monseur Lapin (France and French-speaking Canada); Herr Herremann (Norway); Herr (pronunced "hare") Herriman (Sweden); Señor Herriman (Spain); Pan Zając (Poland); 何立蒙先生 (hé lì méng xiān shēng) (Taiwan); ミスター・ヘリマン (misutā heriman) (Japan); Senhor Coelho (Brazil).

*'''Duchess:''' Duquesa (Latin America); Duchesse (France and French-speaking Canada); Grevinnian (Sweden); Księżna (Poland); 公爵夫人 (gōng jué fū rén) (Taiwan); ダッチス (dacchisu) (Japan).

:''(To pronounce Chinese language, see [[Chinese language#Sounds]])''

:''(To pronounce Japanese language, see [[Japanese phonology]])''

==Note==

* {{fnb|P}} Screenshots of the characters furnished by [http://www.theneitherworld.com/fosters/screengrabs/index.htm C. "Sparky" Reid's "Never Forgotten" web pages.]

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