Private Snafu

Private Snafu is the main protagonist of the World War II-era animated instructional short series of the same name. He is an incompetent United States Army private who often gets himself and others into trouble with his neglegience and stupidity, often leading to his death.
He was voiced by the late Mel Blanc.
== Biography ==
Snafu comes from a small American town, and was drafted into the army when the United States joined World War II. In the very first short starring him, "Coming Snafu", his frequent dimwittedness is demonstrated: he poorly ties up his bagpack, causing it to unpack; he gets distracted by imagery of nude women during the work, causing him to screw it up; and arguing with the MPs lands him in jail. This continues in the following shorts: in "Spies", he lets out the military secret while drunk, alerting the Nazis' of his ship's route, and he gets killed by them and sent to Hell as a result; in "Fighting Tools", he does a poor job keeping his weapons, rendering them useless and allowing a Nazi soldier to capture him; in "Rumors", he starts a rumor about an enemy bombing raid, which eventually grows into a hoax about the Allies losing the war. Sometimes Snafu is helped out by the Technical Fairy, but he either abuses the powers he gives him or ignores his advice. Another fairy, Goldbrick, turns out to be a Japanese spy coercing him into slacking off. Certain shorts, however, such as "Gas", show Snafu realizing his mistakes and learning from them, and "Operation Snafu", released in 1945, portrays him as surprisingly competent, capturing not only important intel, but a Japanese official as well.
== Trivia ==
* Snafu's name is derived from the acronym for "situation normal, all f--ked up". This is alluded in "Coming Snafu", but the word "f--ked" is switched out for "fouled". Similarly, his brothers' names, Fubar and Tarfu, allude to "f--ked up beyond all recognition" and "things are really f--ked up" respectively.
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