Cool Cat

Cool Cat is the main character of Derek Savage's educational book and film series with the same name. He is portrayed by Jason Johnson. His singing voice is provided by Jeremy Saje.
== Appearance ==
Cool Cat is an anthropomorphic cat with orange fur. He has large eyes with blue pupils, a black nose, black eyebrows and an orange tail. He is generally seen wearing one of various short-sleeved shirts (usually with his name written on) and shorts. 
== Personality ==
As his name would imply, Cool Cat is supposedly the coolest cat around. He is diligent, honest and always trying to do the right thing (such as attempting stop bullying). 
Despite his positive demeanor, Cool Cat sometimes get his morals confused, such as when he is telling a group of kids to always look both ways when crossing a street before immediately blindly darting across the same street himself, or in Cool Cat Fights Coronavirus where he admits to forgetting to wear his face mask in the middle of a global pandemic. However, Cool Cat is loved by all the kids in the neighborhood, and he loves all the kids back.
==History==
Cool Cat was born to Daddy Derek, a human, and Momma Cat, a cat. It is unknown if Cool Cat is half-human or if Daddy Derek is his stepdad. They were both loving parents to him and always encouraged him to follow his dreams. He lives with them in the state of California, United States of America. At some point he attended school, and became acquainted with Butch the Bully, Maria, Mikey, Madison and the rest of the neighbourhood children.
One day, Butch saw Cool Cat and Maria playing outside. Feeling like picking on someone, he sent Maria a text saying that her hair "looked like rat hair". Seeing Maria be visibly hurt by the text, Butch laughed and proclaimed "I love being a bully!" before sending another one. Cool Cat comforted Maria and told her that she was very pretty. He also told her that bullies act that way because they don't have any friends. Cool Cat and Maria then witnessed Butch trying to spray paint the signs around the neighborhood, only to have the wind blow the ink on his face, which made them laugh.
Later, Butch phoned Cool Cat to bully him. He asked why he was called Cool Cat, suggesting they should call him "Dumb Cat". He also said that Cool Cat "stank like a dog". Incensed, Cool Cat replied by with "Dogs are my friends! Identify yourself!" but at this point Butch had already hung up the phone. Butch then decided to vandalize the signs of the neighbourhood, stealing another child's sandcastle shovel in the way while also spray painting Madison's sandbox.
Butch recruited two other children to help him spray paint the neighbourhood property. When he was caught, he pinned the blame on the other kids before running off. Cool Cat showed empathy to the children and told him that he loved them in spite of what they did. Touched by this gesture, the children decided to clean up the property they vandalized. Cool Cat then went to eat lunch, where he heard a radio broadcast about someone stealing candy from babies and books from libraries.
Cool Cat is then seen browsing the internet. It is during this time that he is cyberbullied by Butch in the form of harassing emails. Butch's emails mock Cool Cat's appearance, and when Cool Cat replies by saying that if he was nice he'd have more friends, Butch threatens to "get him tomorrow". Cool Cat has nightmares about this, but decides that he'll stand up for himself, being able to sleep well afterwards. 
The next day, Daddy Derek receives a phone call from the Hollywood commision, who tell him Cool Cat is wanted at the Hollywood Christmas Parade. Derek drives him to Hollywood, and the two have a fun time, with Cool Cat observes many vehicles from famous movies and TV shows. Daddy Derek and Cool Cat drive the Cool Cat Convertible in the parade, being met with the cheers of the audience. 
Cool Cat decides he wants to write a new song for the parade, and Daddy Derek to help. Derek writes the song "Cool Cat Loves To Rock", where he provide the music and Cool Cat provides the vocals. Cool Cat praises his guitar skills, and Daddy Derek reveals that his guitar signed is by Van Halen. While singing and dancing, Cool Cat mentions he loves to boogie woogie. Momma Cat also approves of the song and says she the thinks "the kids will boogie to that one". 
The next day, Cool Cat and Maria went to Vivica A. Fox's house, where they had fun and built a sandcastle in the garden. Butch trespassed on to the garden and kicked the sandcastle in Cool Cat's face. Vivica A. Fox and Erik Estrada, who witnessed this happen, consoled Cool Cat while condemning Butch. Vivica gave a testimony about how she was bullied when she was a little girl, but it stopped when she began fighting back. Maria also recounted an incident where she was bullied and the bully posted lies about her online, but she told her parents and then felt better. Cool Cat felt roused from their words of encouragement, and when Butch came back to the house for a second time, insulting their sand castle and demanding their lunch money, both Cool Cat and Maria shouted at him and told him off. As a result, Butch started crying and wailed that he was going to tell his mother that they yelled at him. As he ran away, Cool Cat and Maria eagerly hi-fived. 
The day afterwards, as he was coming home from school, Cool Cat noticed that the mail man left some entertainment magazines on his porch. While browsing one of the magazines, he found an advertisement of a writing contest with a prize of $100 USD. Excited to participate in it, he told his parents about the contest and wrote a story about a fish named Trolly the Trout, who made a lot of friends. 
Days later, Cool Cat and Maria were playing outside, when their friend, Mikey, told them about his new ball. While he was playing with it, it bounced off his foot and on to the road. Mikey tried to fetch it, but didn't look both ways before crossing the road failed to see an oncoming car. He managed to narrowly miss it after Cool Cat warned him to look out. Managing to emerge unharmed, he thanked Cool Cat.
The three were then alerted by the radio broadcast that kids should beware of a thief going around stealing candy from babies. Cool Cat expressed disgust over the fact that anyone would steal candy from babies and called them a "big, big bully". Just then, a child began yelling for help, saying that someone stole all their candy and their books, tearing up as they stated that now they had nothing to read. Another boy ran outside saying that a bully just stole his candy, and points at them - Butch. Butch was the thief behind all those robberies. Angered, Cool Cat chased Butch across the street, not bothering to look both ways before crossing the road (something he advised Mikey to do earlier), which made Butch drop the books and candy and escape. Butch then clashed against the front of a car, which happened to be a police vehicle, and was promptly arrested. The cop thanked Cool Cat for his service before taking Butch to prison.
Later that day, the radio reported that the candy thief was arrested. However, it then stated that since he ate all the stolen candy, the police were forced to let him go because they had no evidence. Cool Cat reacted with frustration, while Mikey and Maria looked at the radio with shock, as did Mama Cat and Daddy Derek.
After Cool Cat, Mikey and Maria finished their lunch, they decided to play treasure hunt in Cool Cat's backyard. While investigating, they found a gun hidden in the grass. Cool Cat ordered everyone to stay calm and tell a trusted adult, so they went to alert Daddy Derek. Unbeknownst to the trio, Butch had just been released from police custody and was watching them. Butch rubbed his hands with glee at the prospect of using the gun to threaten everyone at school for their lunch money, declaring "it'll be fat time for me!" before taking the gun and fleeing the scene.
Cool Cat and his friends, who now had Daddy Derek with them, witnessed Butch run away. Worrying about what he planned to do with it, Derek ordered the kids to go home and called Butch's father, James. He explained the situation, but James didn't believe him and insisted that he was mistaken. However, he offered to investigate the issue nonetheless, much to the relief of Derek.
James either didn't investigate Butch, or did a poor job of doing so, as the next day Butch brought the gun to school, though he didn't use it on anyone and instead showed it off to his friends. Daddy Derek, who personally escorted Cool Cat and his friends to school that day in case Butch attempted a school shooting, brought the kids to safety and then called the police. He guarded the children until a cop car arrived and arrested Butch, as well as the kid he was showing the gun to. Cool Cat cheers as he's taken away, and the children looked relieved.
After school, Cool Cat and his friends hung out at his house and Derek informed him he won the writing contest he entered earlier. The boy who Butch showed the gun to also joined them and apologized for what happened earlier, stating that "his momma whooped his butt" after he was released from jail. Cool Cat welcomed him, and all the children laughed as the movie ends. What happened to Butch isn't known.
== Quotes ==
==Differences==
*In the book, Cool Cat's father was a cat.
==Further reading==
*Cool Cat on the Cool Cat Wiki.
==Trivia==
*Cool Cat's age isn't known. He is young enough to attend school and befriend children like Maria, but he also drives a car.
*He has a car named after him, the Cool Cat Convertible.
*Cool Cat was based on Savage's imaginary friend as a child.
* Cool Cat has confessed to being plagued by a reoccurring nightmare of the Teletubbies without colorhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220901090051/https://twitter.com/CoolCatlovesyou/status/1009329197360152576.
* Cool Cat is an avid enjoyer of pizza. His favorite toppings are pepperoni and sausages, and his least favorite topping is just cheesehttps://twitter.com/CoolCatlovesyou/status/1574171306328674306.
* Cool Cat plans to enlist in the United States militaryhttps://twitter.com/CoolCatlovesyou/status/1582021411299696640.
*On Thanksgiving 2022, Cool Cat admitted to accidentally eating a fabric turkey instead of a real onehttps://twitter.com/CoolCatlovesyou/status/1595867053671739392
*Cool Cat is a fan of the movies and https://twitter.com/CoolCatlovesyou/status/1614979580066156546.
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