Chiko The Hedgehog

Chiko The Hedgehog Is a male magenta-colored hedgehog In the Cutie Toons and Happy Melodies series. Chiko appeared in 46 cartoons in the Cutie Toons series

Origin

Chiko made his first appearance in the 1941 cartoon A Tail Of Two Kitties directed by Fred Quimby but was not paired with Tom The Cat Until The 1947 cartoon Chiko Pie paired them against each other for the first time. The cartoon which won an Academy Award, was the start of many short cartoons

Design

Chiko's design is a Hedgehog which is Spike-less. Chiko's name was originally Orson, but this was soon changed, as his current name was already presented in his second cartoon Hedgehog And The Beast (1944) Chiko has Purple Spikes

Personality

Chiko is a male magenta-colored hedgehog with Purple Sharp Spikes that can hurt animals when they touch him. His catchphrase is "I think I saw a little cat. Chiko appears to be an innocent Hedgehog. When it was frightened, Chiko will roll into a ball to avoid the cat. but in the end The Little Hedgehog will come out of their ball to humiliate Tom Cat unless he ends up humiliating himself trying to catch Chiko. Chiko sometimes lives in a Cage

Rivalry

Chiko and Tom Cat are frequently after each other Tom is trying to eat Chiko And the Hedgehog in turn, is usually avoiding him with ease. Althrough Tom catches Chiko and got Chiko in his mouth on some occasions, most of the time he has never succeeded in eating the Hedgehog. In Greedy For Chiko Tom succeeded in eating Chiko in a hospital where Tom Chiko and Butch The Bulldog were hospitalized and Mammy Two Shoes was their nurse and once Mammy Two Shoes find out that Tom ate Chiko she did an x-ray on Tom and cut him open and got Chiko out

Other Appearances

Chiko has starred in several roles outside of Cutie Toons He, along with several other Character Toons Stars has made appearances in Who Framed Cartoon Rabbit. Space Ball. and Character Toons Back In Action. He also starred as the main protagonist in the 2000 direct-to-video film Chiko's Adventure He also appears as a "baby" version of himself in the television series Baby Cutie Toons

He has a cameo in the Micemaniacs Episode the HMS Mouse

He has a starring role in the series The Tom Cat and Chiko Mysteries.

He appears in The Cutie Toons Show as a pet of Mrs Two Shoes

Chiko appeared in New Cutie Toons

Chiko appeared as a recurring character in Cutie Toons Cartoons where he is voiced by Eric Bauza and has been reverted to the more violent and aggressive personality that Fred Quimby gave him.

On 17 February 2021, it was announced that Chiko will star in Chiko Mysteries which is similar to The Tom Cat and Chiko Mysteries. except that it will be a live-action/animated hybrid Chiko will not be living with Mammy Two Shoes in this series but with a tween girl named Sydney. He will also appear in the preschool series Krash Builders