Cartoon cat

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*Metaphysical Abilities (implied)
*Shape/Size-shifting Immortality (implied)
*Reality Warping
*Eldritch Physiology
*Sound Manipulation (implied)
*Immersion
*Dimension Travel
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'''Cartoon Cat''' is an infamous, and hostile creature created by Canadian horror artist, '''Trevor Henderson''', and is one of the main three popular creations of Henderson, along with [[Siren Head]] and [[Long Horse]].

== Appearance== '''Cartoon Cat''' appears to be a pitch-black, tall, slender, and malleable humanoid entity with a feline head, manifesting with a physical aesthetic akin to that of a rubber hose cartoon character, albeit far more grotesque and realistic. Word of God (cɪtatɪon needed) states that the entity has inconsistent height, with some photos depicting '''Cartoon Cat''' reaching up to the size of a two-story building, exceeding the height of a single story residence, while others depict it at shorter heights, being only a few feet taller than an average human being.

This also applies to '''Cartoon Cat''''s shape and physical characteristics. A particular photo of it depicts it with a large white patch pasted on its abdomen, not wearing gloves (which are often prominent in pictures with Cartoon Cat) and wearing cartoonish boots.

There are multiple prominent traits for the creature '''Cartoon Cat''', some notable examples include the following:

Its eyes, both of which fluctuate between being shorter and more rounded, to a more ovular shape. They are composed of a white "sclera" analogue which occasionally appears to become bloodshot, and a black pupil which dilates in a way that is akin to that of a cat. Its crooked and often blood-stained teeth that are affixed within a set of pallid red gums. Another notable trait is that it often wears white gloves with three thin, textural black lines. Its fingers are slender and sharp, and their count vary based on multiple factorshttps://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1434610973319606274https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1434611412236742665 '''Cartoon Cat''''s legs often end in sharp points or simple stubs, but a specific, aforementioned photograph depicts the creature wearing boots.

Trevor states that '''Cartoon Cat''' is a shape-shifting blob, and that it has significant control over its form. https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1204561917660008448 It has the most malleable appearance out of all Trevor Henderson's monsters, as almost all aspects of the creature vary by specific encounterhttps://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1573777040028966912.

[https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1579957319215243265 A photograph of the vile abomination revealing more of what is hidden] has showcased it transporting itself while ducking, seemingly moving on its knees due to its unfathomably large size in this picture. Without gloves, and unnaturally sharp and jarred fingers. This time, not only is it greater in size than other appearances, but it also seems more corpulent. It has a grotesque facial expression, shifting its pupils to face opposite directions, and possessing an oddly human nose followed by an agape, wide-open mouth that can also be perceived as '''Cartoon Cat''''s mask folding backwards, to reveal a horrifying fleshy growth serving as an extension for its gums, which are split open by a crooked smile with many small teeth poking out.

==Behavior== '''Cartoon Cat''' is a malevolent cosmic parasite. One that is hollow and hungry for violence and atrocities that remain as of now undisclosed. One that has been stated numerous times to be fetid, rotten, and ancienthttps://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1412859229979951111https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1493696726456320006https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1025656448452358144https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1045016077154091014. '''Cartoon Cat''' disguises as a rubber-hose style cartoon mascot, This likely has to do with its nature as a parasite.https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1434615196207796225

Most who encounter the creature meet with an unfortunate fate. Most of which are mainly within an undisclosed abandoned mall, although it has been shown to be capable of travel to other locations. This is because '''Cartoon Cat''' was proven to be so dangerous due to its "unchecked limitations", (citation needed) that even other monsters avoid going near its lair. Cartoon Cat was implied to be the most powerful creature in the whole mythos, apparently so mighty that even in a hypothetical collective fight between all the mythos' monsters, '''Cartoon Cat''' would be the victor. This is however hypothetical, and purely speculative.https://curiouscat.me/slimyswampghost/post/1025146927

'''Cartoon Cat''' is well known for its malevolencehttps://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1412861233389256707, even exceeding [[The Man With The Upside-Down Face|The Man with The Upside-Down Face]],https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1249033476562661377 despite his love for misery and negativity. '''Cartoon Cat''' was implied to commit atrocities more heinous than what '''The Man''' has done. As well as this, it is at the highest rank at the pain/malevolence scale used by Trevor to rank the creatures by malevolence along with '''The Man'''.https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1216978943380742144

While '''Cartoon Cat''' isn't a tulpa like [[Siren Head]], Trevor has statedhttps://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1493700498586800133https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1493697810792947713 that as long as people hold a belief of its existence in a certain capacity, '''Cartoon Cat''' is able to manifest through some sort of dimensional gateway from its dimension to ours. It is stated to have been "filtered" through old media, implying that '''Cartoon Cat''' manifests in devices such as television, or any medium used to display audio-visual diffusion, possibly within a sort of cartoon animation, hence its name and characteristics, albeit the entity's exact behavior remains unspoken of, presumably murdering viewers of the "show" later on.

In a general [https://twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1579577527903072256 Q&A space] hosted on '''October 10th, 2022''' by Trevor with [https://mobile.twitter.com/BloodyFM @BloodyFM], Trevor summarized Cartoon Cat as such (extracted from Close Captions of the space, timestamp 38:44- 39:38; adjusted for comprehension's sake):

{{Quote|[...] So he uses the output of creatives to manifest in our world. Like it uses them like a porthole from one place to another. So right now it's using a cat, like it's using this cartoon image from the authorities or whatever. [...] They could have had previous forms that will probably have different forms in the future. This is just it's it's a faux body, current form, faux body right now.|Trevor Henderson}}

==Abilities== Most of the entity's high impact abilities aren't directly stated, but implied, '''Cartoon Cat''' has a wide range of supernatural abilities, as it is malleable, following the rubber-hose old cartoon style, where cartoon mascots were able to change shape according to action, and had significant resistance to physical harm (This means that Cartoon Cat might shape shift into anyone and anything). Another ability of '''Cartoon Cat''' is that it is implied to be able to redact information about itself, as demonstrated in the fact sheethttps://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1050098764025815040/photo/1 of the creature, where one could only make out several words due to the huge redaction bars coating the text. Another interesting ability, as described in the last paragraph of the [https://trevorhenderson.fandom.com/wiki/Cartoon_Cat#Behavior Behavior] section of this creature's page is that it may be able to immerse itself in and out of audio-visual devices, as well as manipulate sounds and music, Cartoon Cat could also regenerate even in extreme situations like a nuke or even existence erasure itself, Cartoon Cat could also grow as big as he wants (please note that he starts as human sized) He can also generate old timey music when you are in his presence

Interestingly enough, as '''Cartoon Cat''' is likely the strongest entity in the whole verse, it could be a metaphysical entity, and an immortal one perhaps, or having enigmatic abilities that are able to prove it as the victor even in a hypothetical collective battle with all of Henderson's creatures in it, this even includes metaphysical deities like [[The Lamb]], immortal entities like [[The Slashers|Fencer and Cold Clay]] including ones described as "unfathomable" like [[Siren Head]] and even timeless and powerful ones like [[Long Horse]] and [[The Man With The Upside-Down Face/Gallery|The Upside-Down-Faced Man]]. This is further backed up by the fact that '''Cartoon Cat''' may be an extra-dimensional entity. It is also entirely possible that, when asked, Trevor simply did not consider all possibilities to their full extent.

==Quotes== {{Quote|What they found in the dirt mall|The caption on the first post with Cartoon Cat.}} {{Quote|they're just like your favorite cartoon...|A caption about another variant of the creature, or an individual (Cartoon Dog)}} {{Quote|THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!|The caption of a post showing the monster near an abandoned building.}} {{Quote|that's all folks!|A caption on a post with a dog-like cartoon creature (Cartoon Dog?) near a doorway.}} {{Quote|all the classics are coming back|A caption of a post showing the creature in front of a car in a road.}} {{Quote|reruns|A quote about the post showing the cryptid on the run, possibly chasing somebody.}} {{Quote|back in syndication|The caption of a post showing the creature with a bloodthirsty, angry, and menacing expression near a house.}} {{Quote|Cartoon Cat is the most (DATA EXPUNGED) of all the (DATA EXPUNGED)!|The caption for the creature's fact sheet.}} {{Quote|4:00 AM|A caption about an illustration of the creature at a doorway.}} {{Quote|parking lot, 3:00 am|A quote of a post with Cartoon Cat in a parking lot at the darker hours of the night, staring at the camera menacingly.}} {{Quote|Something very old. A hungry, hollow rot hiding behind an outdated smiling face. As long as there are people watching, it has a hatch to our reality.|Trevor's description of Cartoon Cat in his cryptid documentation thread}}

==Trivia== *There are smear frames whenever Cartoon Cat moves.https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1573787574920962052 *When asked if Cartoon Cat was a patron saint, Trevor replied: "too evil".https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1322050293215932416 *Interestingly enough, Cartoon Cat and [[Good Boy]] were the only patron saint-style monsters in the series that didn't have the halo symbol behind them. *The words one can make out from the heavily redacted fact sheet of Cartoon Cat are : **"Extremely hostile!!" **"Incredibly cruel." **"Often found in a- abandoned-." **"-show from 1939." **"Is thought to be re- under any circumstances." *In a bit of meta humor, when a user jokingly asked if the fact sheet is an SCP article due to the sheer amount of [REDACTED] bars covering the text, Trevor replied: "They don't own the word 'redacted'!"https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1050121854977884161 *You'd be dead before you find out, but Cartoon Cat tastes like static.https://curiouscat.me/slimyswampghost/post/1025161797 *Trevor stated that Cartoon Cat is evil because of unchecked imitations. *Trevor has expressed that '''Cartoon Cat''''s patron saint artwork is the closest he has come to depicting the entity the way he wants. Additionally, he thinks it's interesting to "have all the right SHAPES of a cartoon brought to life, but on a textural level just be completely gross and fucked."https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1559589513466445825 *Cartoon Cat and the other cartoon monsters are morally aware of their actions.https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215305/https://slimyswampghost.tumblr.com/post/178779510584/are-any-of-your-monsters-morally-aware-like-do *The cartoon animals can take the exaggerated form of almost any animal, but since cats, mice and dogs are generally the first images that comes to mind when thinking of a cartoon for children, that's the form they're most likely to latch onto and form from.https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1044812676998844417 *When asked why '''Cartoon Cat''' apparently hasn't caused mass murders despite being so powerful, Trevor responded saying "Every year, people go missing."https://curiouscat.me/slimyswampghost/post/1025164491. The exact implications of this are unknown, although it seems to prove that Cartoon Cat has indeed commit several mass murders throughout the years. *When asked what exactly is Cartoon Cat, Trevor replied : "[REDACTED]".https://curiouscat.me/slimyswampghost/post/1025167628 *A user expressed that everything Trevor states about the creature makes them more scared of it. Trevor replied : "Good!"https://curiouscat.me/slimyswampghost/post/1025148022 *Trevor stated that ''Abandoned By Disney'' had a hand in '''Cartoon Cat''''s design inspiration, as well as a specific sequence from one of the stories in ''Twilight Zone : The Movie'' that traumatized him as a kid.https://mobile.twitter.com/slimyswampghost/status/1204562542493937664 *Cartoon Cat can have pharyngeal jaws. [[Category:Trevor Henderson Creations]] [[Category:Humanoids]] [[Category:Patron Saints]] INDEX NEWSECTIONLINK

== Location ==

The original image of Cartoon Cat is seemingly in a mall, labelled 'the dirt mall'. It is likely abandoned, due to the nature of Cartoon Cat. An abandoned exploration video revealed a mall that looked the exact same as the one in the original image, largely due to the unique pillars. Therefore the location of this mall is believed to be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, called the Northridge Mall. Mr. Mirage

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