Cartoon Penguin

There are many different species of penguins. penguins in cartoons will often be a generic, simplified variety of no particular species.

The typical design includes:

* black and white plumage, with a black body and white belly. All penguins do have white bellies, and most have black feathers, but some are gray or blue instead (some cartoon penguins are blue, especially in Japanese works), and a lot have markings. They may also have a white face, which is true of a few species. Real penguins have white underwings, but this hardly ever shows up in animation.
* Yellow or orange bills and feet. Some penguins do have an orange bill and/or feet, but they can also come in pink, black or gray.
* Bills are often portrayed as bird beaks; they can be short and pointed like a songbird or blue and rounded like that of a duck. Real penguin bills are not like this, as it wouldn't be effective for catching prey.
* Bowties will sometimes appear, to play on their black-and-white plumage looking like a tuxedo.

In real life, no penguin looks exactly like this. The Adélie penguin comes close, being black with a plain white belly, its feet are pink, and its bill is mostly covered in feathers, leaving it only visible at the tip. The Gentoo penguin also comes close, being black all around with a plain white belly, orange bill, and orange feet, but the top part of its bill has a black outline and it has a big white patch above each eye.

Advertising

Tux the Penguin, the mascot for Linux, has a white chest and black body, yellow, duck-like feet, and a yellow beak.

Asian Animation

*Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf* In *Great War in the Bizarre World* episode 30, the chiefs arguing about the penguins being white or black. Weslie resolves the conflict, saying they're both

Film - Animation

The penguins in *Madagascar* and its spin-off TV series are black with white bellies and faces, orange bills and feet.

*The Pebble and the Penguin*: While most of the cast are Adélie penguins, excluding Rocko the Rockhopper, they have black and white faces and yellow beaks with a red tip.

Topper the penguin in *Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town* is a claymation version of the trope, with the addition of his long yellow scarf.

*Toy Story 2*: Wheezy the penguin toy is black with a white belly, yellow bill, red bowtie, and round body.

Film - Live Action

*Mary Poppins*: The animated penguins are black-and-white with orange bills and feet, and black bowties.

*Who Framed Roger Rabbit*: The waiters in the night club are *Mary Poppins* penguins.

Puppet Shows

*The Muppet Show*: Penguins on the show have a black body, white belly and orange feet. However, their beaks are black.

*Sesame Street*: Most penguins have black bodies, white bellies, and orange feet, similar to those in *The Muppets*. However, their beaks are gray.

Video Games

*Club Penguin*: The default penguin fits this to a T. Penguins that don't it the color scheme still have the yellow bill, white bellies, and round bodies.

*Pokémon*: Eiscue is the closest thing to a cartoon penguin with black-and-white coloring...wearing a giant ice-cube helmet.

Western Animation

*The Backyardigans* Pablo the penguin, who is a blue penguin with a yellow belly, blue bowtie, yellow bill, and spherical head.

*Chilly Willy*: Chilly has a black body with a white face and orange or yellow bill.

*Family Guy*: Penguins tended to be drawn like this in earlier episodes, with black feathers, orange beaks and feet, and white bellies.

*Looney Tunes*: Playboy Penguin is black (blue in his first appearance) with an orange bill and feet and a white belly.

Tex Avery's 1938 short "The Penguin Parade" is filled to the brim with them. Funny penguins at that.

*The Octonauts*: Peso, Pinto, and their mother are black penguins with white bellies, white faces, and yellow beaks and feet.

*PAW Patrol*: The adult penguins are black with white bellies and faces, as well as orange bills and feet.

*Pingu*: The titular penguin, as well as most of the other penguins on the show, are portrayed as having round, mostly black bodies, with a white underbelly. They also have flat, orange feet and red duck-like beaks.

*The Simpsons*: The penguins in the episode "The Aquarium" are black with yellow bills and feet and white bellies.

*T.O.T.S.*: All penguins seen in the series have black feathers, yellow beaks and feet, and white abdomens.